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Halloween Magic Ideas #192 · The Magic Guys

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  They're guys they do magic they are the magic guys,
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  oh boy ladies and gentlemen welcome to episode 192 of the magic guys this is
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  awesome to my left we've got doug con buenas noches senors oh yeah hola down
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  below in aussie land we got nick k Hola mi amigos.
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  Yes, alright Espanol, we're doing We're doing a Mexican I'm messing up my accents,
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  anyway Work on that, great to see everyone I just got backstage two minutes
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  before We went live, so you know It's going to be a great episode,
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  and just briefly We want to say thank you To all our friends that were waiting
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  For us in the chat, Scotty P Happy Tuesday from the future,
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  which is Great, because it is Tuesday for us and Monday For
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  Doug in the US it's gonna rain tomorrow doug just
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  so you know we got tim askin saying hi to
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  scott which is very meta we love that we got seth
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  thomas conga in the house and all
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  the great fam and more to come because we do this live
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  so make sure you jump in so you can uh answer
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  you we can answer your questions live uh in in the chat
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  but hey gentlemen what is
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  up let's start with you nick how has your week been my friend
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  in truth bad i got
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  a virus on like thursday and i've just been
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  wiped out since i've been totally bedridden damn you
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  know and you know that's that's a thing like what you know magicians get sick
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  but they still gotta work you know we still gotta make a living so what happened
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  did you have to cancel gigs did you have to suck it up what happened i handled
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  every single gig and i just spent the time sweating out of fever i started with
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  the chills Chills got ordinary,
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  got rid of that pretty quickly, and then the fevers just come in,
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  and it's sort of just lingering now.
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  But, you know, I live a pretty healthy lifestyle, and I drink,
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  like, hydrogen water, and I have these, like, toxic removal things that I put
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  on my feet and stuff like that. So I got rid of most of it.
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  You know relatively quickly it's just the energy levels like i'm struggling
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  like even right now like i'm pounding a pre-workout drink just to make progress
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  the energy to make it through this episode because pre-workout that's what we've
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  been talking about you guys are not role models i've tried that stuff it's not
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  recommended yeah don't listen to these boys they're hardcore australians,
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  i look i look forward to the day that maybe like we can do an episode where
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  we give doug Like in person, when we travel to the US, we give Doug a workout,
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  and then I'll take you through a workout. I'll try anything once. Let's go.
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  Hell yeah. But it is like, what time is it here? Seven? I'm drinking coffee, so let's go. I'm on.
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  Yeah, nice. Nice. I've never been drinking a lot of coffee since,
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  but the only thing about this stuff that you drink is it stains your tongue,
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  like blue-tongued lizard type thing, which is a common creature here in Australia.
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  You guys wouldn't appreciate that.
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  That's what she said. Pfft. boom because
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  nick's got the virus anyway but look
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  on a serious note doug how are you my friend you we're talking backstage and
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  you mentioned you had some news about one of your dear friends yeah
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  man i almost didn't do this podcast today and
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  you know all week i've had challenging mental
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  health talk about not feeling well let me
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  give just before i talk about this man give the listeners the
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  references i'm going to just share for a moment that i'm sharing
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  if you're listening to library.com screen for
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  john rocker bomber this man
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  was my magic father we're looking at 241 titles
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  listed there's the first one i ever read at
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  the table i was working at the rocks in charlotte north carolina this was early
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  in my magic career i used to borrow books from the rocks and read them i read
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  this book back in the early 80s this would be my destiny later as i got to befriend
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  this man as an early adult.
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  When I was 18, I came to New Orleans and I got to meet John Rockerbomber.
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  I got to become a good friend with this man.
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  And we went to magic sessions, the nights of slights every Monday night.
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  He must've done this meeting for over 25, maybe close to 30 years.
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  He was my ride there and home. We'd leave at seven o'clock and we'd come home
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  at three, four in the morning, sometimes see daylight going over to You know,
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  Denny's having breakfasts.
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  And so, yeah, I guess you could know where that's going. Most of you people
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  do, and I'm on his Facebook page now, and we lost John last Tuesday,
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  and it's just been a tough week for anyone that got to know this man. Here's some locals.
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  Steve Reynolds, who was as close to John as anyone could be. Hudson's there.
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  Joe Harrison. We used to go to Joe's house after the meetings.
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  I hope you'll excuse me as I ramble about this man just for a minute here.
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  I want to get to what his wife wrote when he passed. I'll read that and we'll
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  get on having some fun. I want to say this.
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  I'm here tonight because like John was here for me every Monday night when I was a young man.
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  You know, maybe people tonight, maybe it'll be someone needs to hear something that I have to say.
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  And I hope that, you know, me, instead of just sitting around moping about John
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  again, being here in the spirit that he was there for so many other.
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  We'll talk about him. We'll give an episode for John. Right.
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  And we can talk about him more.
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  We will 100% do that. I've been doing my dealings on him a lot,
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  and a lot of my mentors, just like yourself, Doug, they knew John at a personal
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  level, and he's one of those brilliant minds that's been published,
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  like you said, over 200 publications that are there, as well as all the stuff
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  in the Genie magazines and so forth.
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  He wrote magic articles for like 50 years. He wrote his own magazines,
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  the Hierophant, the Kabbalah, Ol' Rem, Vial, Sticks and Stones, Modus Operandi.
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  He wrote for Magic Magazine, Genie Magazine.
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  My very first, this, I showed this on YouTube the other day,
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  but this was, this is the foreshadowing of my book, The Linking Ring Parade, he published in 1997.
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  The illustrations in this Linking Ring Parade are in my book,
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  and I'm quite sure, without John's interest in my material, when I was 25,
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  that the tricks of my trade book, And hey, there's John, card fixes.
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  I got this book from John in the 90s. There's the Hierophant.
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  That book doesn't exist without John.
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  There's going to be 100 stories like mine because everyone he touched felt like
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  he was, like I feel, so close to him.
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  And to your point, buddy, he's so much more than just the publications.
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  He's so much more than just the guy that existed between the pages of all these
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  publications. He's so much more than that. And so I, on the side,
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  have been reaching out to a few friends who know him or might have known him.
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  And I've been asking for their stories because that's the important stuff.
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  I don't think anyone would have known him.
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  He picked up Doug Kahn on a regular basis, on a weekly basis to hang out and do magic.
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  And that's the reason why we have Doug Kahn in his amazing form today.
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  And he'd send me home with the book that I needed to read that week.
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  You know, he would bring a title and you're not going to find those stories
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  in the pages of his works. And that's the sort of stuff I want to gather.
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  So we're going to do our diligence and we're going to do that.
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  We're going to gather as much information and wonderful stories about John.
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  And we're going to pay our respects to him in the most loving,
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  respectful way as possible.
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  But Doug, thank you so much for sharing your amazing story with Doug.
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  The word of Rocker Bomber, onward.
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  Yeah. Yeah. And I love just quickly as well, like seeing that he did so much with his love for magic.
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  Like, you know, it seems like he was doing magic up right until the end.
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  Like it's, being a magician is such a wonderful way to live in that you can do it forever, you know,
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  and then you can leave this body of work that lives on and, and helps people
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  that never met him and will still continue. Like, it's just, it's a beautiful thing.
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  And we will talk about it more once we gather a bit more info for sure.
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  But we just wanted to acknowledge that. Thank you for that.
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  Thank you. Thank you for sharing that, that, those words.
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  Now, I think from here, we did have a speak pipe come in. Lovely way to continue our episode.
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  It's, I think I want to keep doing this, opening our episodes with the voice of our listeners.
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  So do keep sending them in. It can be a question, a funny story, just a thought.
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  It can be what you're up to. It can be anything. And today's one comes from
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  Seth and we're going to see what Seth is up to.
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  Make sure this is not on mute. And I believe it's Seth Howard.
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  I'm just winging it because I'm used to seeing his name in the chat here.
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  Once it loads. That's what happens when you're two minutes pre-show.
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  I know. I had it here ready to play, but I'm just waiting for it to load now.
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  So I'm just going to improv for a hot second.
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  Seth says nailed it. Okay. So Seth is in the chat and it was in fact Seth Howard.
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  So that's good to know. You know what? I'm just going to reopen it while Nick does a dance,
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  which is going to be awesome on audio land wow yeah
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  i don't even understand he just totally popped lock
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  and dropped it okay here we go i think we got it now more of a dog
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  vogue situation hey boys hope you all are well i have a question for you today
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  you've mentioned kill tony multiple times on the show and i was wondering if
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  you ended up being a bucket pool during the interview when you were inevitably
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  asked to show magic trick, what trick would you do?
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  And also I see that the theme of today's episode is Halloween magic.
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  And one of my favorite tricks to do this time of year is Joe Diamond's presentation
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  of the Haunted Key. Cheers.
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  Cheers. Thanks, Seth. And I love that your blinker was on, which indicates you
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  had pulled over to send this speak pipe.
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  Thank you. That my friend, speak pipes responsibly. Thank you, Seth.
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  Absolutely. Now, just for reference, uh, kill Tony is one of the world's most
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  popular watched comedy podcasts and they do it.
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  They record it with a live studio audience.
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  You can watch the show. Anyway, people sign up to
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  get on the show and do a minute of comedy and then they interview you and
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  they like if you have a special skill or talent they
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  want to see it so what seth is referring to is if
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  you got on the show and the moment they
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  hear you're a magician they're going to say show us a trick what would
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  you do so that's what he's referring to and and the thing is as well it would
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  have to be something that if you're using a prop you'd have to be able to conceal
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  it on you because backstage they actually get you to empty your pockets and
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  they take everything off you just so they don't have weirdos like pulling a knife or something.
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  And I've heard people go on the show and mention it like, oh,
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  well, you know, I was going to show you this thing that I had,
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  but they took it off me backstage.
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  Like they lock up your phones in this comedy club so that, cause they say all
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  sorts of profound stuff and they don't want it taken out of context where people film it.
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  So it would have to be like, you know, a thumb tip you could get away with.
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  They wouldn't see that. It could be something slim.
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  It could be, you know, something that It goes around your wrist,
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  but I don't know, for example, that you could get away with taking a deck of cards out.
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  Don't shoot me down, Norbida.
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  Well, let's say you could though, but yeah. Okay. So let's say you couldn't. Could you do one card?
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  You could do one card. You could put one card in your wallet.
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  Okay question yeah let's let's explore this then so.
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  The kill tony cards they have printed are.
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  The court card members of the cast yes they
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  are great so and i have them as well
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  great so if we're going to create a trick right now
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  which i think is what the question sort of pertains to is what would
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  you do now what i would like to do is i like to put like a
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  little blood packet in between like in the
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  theme of halloween and put like split the card
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  put a little blood packet in between it right maybe
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  of the host do maybe some sort of
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  ambitious type routine where it keeps coming to the top perhaps and or and
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  then kind of end it where i would have
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  loved to have ended it with a stab the card stab
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  of sorts or maybe with a fork or something of that nature like something
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  along the lines of let me think like like
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  freak by bizarro something like that would be kind of
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  cool where you stab it and then you can show it but it would be
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  cool to have blood coming through the card that's what
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  i would be doing i think that's kind of cool yeah and
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  i think that's all very dual work and you
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  also have to remember that there that tony hinchcliffe
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  the host he's there ready to roast you in a funny way at if if you fuck up or
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  take too long or whatever it's got to be like so i would almost and i because
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  i think that's great and that would make great great content as well I would
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  almost go on the sucker approach,
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  like where you give him the moment to heckle you and then you show that he was
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  wrong because the audience loves that when you prove the host wrong for something.
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  Almost as if...
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  Are you thinking Magician in Trouble plot? Is that what you're thinking?
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  That's what I'm kind of thinking, like where almost where like you...
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  Maybe you have one card and you get
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  him to name anyone and you subtly let him see it
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  like you flash it before you actually change it to what's going
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  to be the real card so he can i got that now i've crafted it
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  now hell yeah all right doug it's a
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  deck of cards and you address
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  tony i'll be tony okay i mean this could be in my wallet if you're henchman
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  that stopped me i was ready tony okay all right so possibilities this guy he
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  just keeps interrupting me all right you're a magician all right show us a trick
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  i'm a semi-pro i'm not gonna let you talk much i got the wrong you're gonna
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  make my mate you're gonna make all the the women's moisture disappear
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  that this is the stuff he'll say that's the stuff i brought a
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  blue one just you know i don't cheat name anyone you want 52 choices
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  oh all right we're gonna go uh damn it i
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  wrote on myself for your entertainment pleasure i hope you're happy i'm doing
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  it to kill tony style what are you going with tony yeah we're gonna go the two
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  of hearts just like my last two wives i am he's got over yeah it's right there
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  next to the right next to the three oh i don't believe it you son of a bitch,
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  now they would react to that what did you say though two of hearts two hearts
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  we'll use that you feel like that was a free choice like you could have said any card in the deck.
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  Now these cards might have names on them they don't
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  now but eventually you get to the two of parts well fuck
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  i put tape on the one that said tony well this is all a mess but no no well
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  we can rewind yeah already names end up with his name on the back of it i put
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  the wrong card on the face of the deck so here we are i learned this trick from
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  rocker bomber it's ed marlow's female i know it's a mess oh this is all horrible.
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  No no this is this is look how horrible this is though
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  this has tape on it so any named card goes on
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  the face of the deck or it could be wax ideally
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  and there's a joker underneath it so when you remove this card it looks the
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  same so now the way ed marlow did it all of these were male names and this was
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  the only female name and it appears as though the freely named card as when
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  he did it on And I'll tell you who did this when I saw it.
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  Paul Gertner did it on Johnny Carson with Johnny Carson's name.
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  And he said, you could have had Pam or Karen, but you picked the four diamonds and here's Johnny.
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  You know, and it had his name on it.
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  So the idea would be this. You go from an impossible situation with good tension.
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  You play off the host. you get the gag and
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  bang and then quickly transition to the
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  impossible finish where the named card is revealed maybe
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  with a little less freaking sharpie marker holy crap
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  i'm a mess i couldn't tell if it said tony or phony
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  i couldn't i have another
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  version of that that i like to tinker with so if i
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  would have is tony able to get up away from the table because
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  if he is you can have him stand right next to you he doesn't like to he he doesn't
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  like to no he's like he just wants to see the thing and so for example a balloon
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  swallow could go down like if you can take the stuff out there like they'll
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  make so many jokes about you swallowing a large you know because i would have
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  done i would have done a folded card pinned to his back.
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  Right right right yeah that won't you should watch the show
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  and you'll you'll see what i mean but but the thing is
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  they'll roast you but they'll also they will also give you so much
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  praise when you do well so you
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  know what i would do doug is in almost probably what would be better is for
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  their audience is what do you think instead of showing the 52 cards on the deck
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  it should just be a giant penis like on the back it should be like tony name
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  any card any card seven hearts,
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  no giant cock trying to not go right for the
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  penis nor be though holy crap no but you know
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  that's his audience and then you would say but look
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  you know on the back of the two hearts is tony
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  that's probably what would that's what i'm thinking
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  you know or they do they smoke on stage there you
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  could or you could just do a vanishing cigarette oh that would
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  be a good one actually you do cigarette and shirt yes cigarette in shirt now
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  we're talking now we're talking or you could have you could do a quick change
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  of your shirt i just got jackie use shirt change which i'm excited to use and
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  you could have the shirt say like tony is gay or something so you could change it boom.
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  These are the things that come to mind you got to play to his audience you know
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  oh that's good doug's got a this is this is an original i normally do with a thumb tip,
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  So I remember you opened it. We opened an episode.
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  Yeah. Give him this. Hey, Tony, what's up? How you doing? There we go.
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  And then you would get a bigger close. Absolutely. Hell yeah.
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  See, that's funny. Or if you know what Tony's favorite drink is,
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  for example, because he does mention it a lot.
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  You could do, you could blow a balloon and then, you know, do like a splash
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  bottle to his favorite drink. That would be an easy play.
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  Yeah. You got to know your audience, I guess. there's mike with the rockabama
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  reference he put it in his european lecture notes i remember these notes he
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  called it thy name is woman that's right the marlowe trick though it's female,
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  female marlowe put it in it's in a saint louis lecture note saint louis lecture
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  notes the magic of ed marlowe damn damn all right marlowe rock was prone to
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  do that he'd borrow an item and drop it in his notes,
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  you know, sometimes like that. Yeah. Wow.
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  So segwaying off. I think my ear's bleeding.
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  So thank you for that question, Seth. And it makes me think,
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  you know, cause really what you're trying to do is, is tailor your magic to
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  the audience you're going to be at.
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  If you're going on someone else's show and early, well, a week ago, I went on the today show.
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  They came and hosted their their weather from our
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  theater of magic and i know i keep talking about the theater
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  magic every week but it's because we love it i love it
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  and i for the first time i was thinking like
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  what magic am i going to do on this show and of course one thing was going to
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  be a rubik's cube but i'm like everyone's seen an instant solve of a rubik's
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  cube like if you're into magic and i like i've done this a billion times and
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  then it occurred to me we had paul fowler and kev g on an episode and I bought,
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  I learned how to do Cubify and I was like, you know what?
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  I never use this because it just didn't fit to, to reveal celebrities and stuff. But what is Cubify?
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  So Cubify, well, it's instead of solving a cube, Doug, it's being able to,
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  well, I'll show you, instead of solving a cube, you can mix a cube to spell words.
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  So I went on the morning show and also the today show.
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  And I wonder if, oh, yeah, I think I've been able to spell it here.
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  So I was able to mix it up and then reveal this today and then show.
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  And then I was like, but we're not just on, we're not just on the today show.
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  We're here with a host, not just any host.
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  We're here with the famous presenter.
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  His name is Tim Davies. So I showed this, Mr. Tim Davies.
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  And then, now I've just- Oh, the cube is spelling the words as he spins it.
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  And then after you've done that, you can say, but this is a cube after all.
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  So we do have to go back to solving it. Wow.
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  And that's all she wrote. Hey.
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  So when you, thank you. When you buy Cubify, it comes flat packed and you get
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  a big sheet of these stickers that you can just add to your cube.
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  And so, yeah, so that was just a fun way to tailor something for the show,
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  because what you don't realize with Cubify is whatever you're revealing needs
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  to be exactly nine letters. Like unless you're going to use two rows or whatever, or two cubes.
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  But today's show is perfectly nine. And the host's name, Tim Davies,
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  was perfectly nine. So I was like, this is too good not to use.
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  And so you can customize that prop for the unique appearance.
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  Yeah. So I'll, I'll give, I'll give them some love because what they've done is.
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  When you purchase Cubify, the reason why you purchase Cubify and not just buy
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  a sheet of stickers, that's them messaging us right now.
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  The reason why you purchase it is because they have developed a system,
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  like a specific layout of letters that can be mixed to spell a whole bunch of celebrities' names.
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  So they have routines where you can have some flashcards with different names.
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  They pick one and then you can spell out from shuffling the one that they're thinking of.
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  So that's why you get the product and not just letters.
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  But I just found that people weren't really, and you can even see in the trailer,
• 22:23
  like people aren't really reacting to the spelling of the words as much as they
• 22:27
  are when it actually solves.
• 22:29
  And I think it's because it's not personal to them. So adapting it to being their name.
• 22:33
  So what i'm going to try and do now is at my
• 22:36
  shows find someone's name who on
• 22:39
  the ticket list that that would fit on here and then i can do it
• 22:42
  like during the show for example so yeah
• 22:45
  people i think this has been slept on a little bit but yeah cubify check it
• 22:49
  out it is definitely worth having on the side for that right moment especially
• 22:55
  if you're doing cube stuff and want to do you know another cube piece in your
• 22:58
  act it's ideal it's a little something different and yeah they get it And I
• 23:03
  think what looks really good too is if you,
• 23:04
  instead of using this type of cube, if you use the borderless ones that are,
• 23:09
  they're a little bit more bright fluoro colored, they show the letters way better.
• 23:13
  Cause you can see here like yellow and white show up quite good,
• 23:17
  but blue is a little dark.
• 23:20
  And so, yeah, the, the, the, the speed cubers all know the ones I'm referencing,
• 23:25
  but they're, yeah, they're borderless and brighter.
• 23:28
  And imagine if you did it with just white like imagine
• 23:31
  if you just had a white cube that only had letters like that would
• 23:33
  be a bit crazy because then you'd have to still know
• 23:36
  a way to know which orientation like there would be that would be a bit trickier
• 23:40
  but still now it's not really a cube trick about colors yeah you could really
• 23:45
  kind of play with it yeah and just a reminder we actually spoke about this at
• 23:48
  length on episode 172 with paul fowler and of course kev g when they when they
• 23:54
  first released the product.
• 23:55
  So if you guys want to know more about it, roll back to episode 172.
• 23:59
  You'll be able to find out everything you need in regards to that one.
• 24:02
  100%. Scotty P, Joshua Coyne to Bottle got an awesome reaction. Thank you.
• 24:08
  Yes, it did. A funny thing about TV is the producers want to see exactly what
• 24:14
  you're going to do because it's live TV.
• 24:17
  I'll just tell you guys because this was weird. I had to show them the trick.
• 24:22
  With the presenter being there as well, I had to show them the trick off air to then do it re-air.
• 24:28
  And I had to be like, just remember how you feel right now because you got to,
• 24:33
  we got to, you know, I got to show you this again.
• 24:35
  Oh, and Doug is just showing us a cube that has numbers on it instead of letters.
• 24:41
  There's an interesting story here. This is my very first Instagram post ever.
• 24:46
  It's got one like by Eric Jones.
• 24:52
  Wow. whoa what a flex this is
• 24:55
  2012 i had the
• 24:58
  notion of doing the magic the magic square with
• 25:01
  a rubik's cube oh my god this was
• 25:04
  this was 12 years ago so a little cutting
• 25:07
  edge right before people started releasing methods oh
• 25:11
  my gosh eric jones knew it was good wow well
• 25:16
  bloody hell hey you should interest in developing cube work
• 25:19
  this challenge at the time i was
• 25:21
  a good cube solver this challenge proved to be
• 25:24
  unwieldy because the numbers been on
• 25:28
  the cube right so i don't know what solution that your creators have developed
• 25:32
  but cheers to them for figuring it out it's quite challenging to produce desired
• 25:37
  results after spinning the cube you know different orientations i was also experimenting
• 25:42
  before the revolution had happened with all the quick solves and,
• 25:48
  fancy algorithms so i might have
• 25:51
  had more luck 10 years later hey never say never you can thanks eric jones for
• 25:56
  the like yeah hell yeah throwback we're still bros actually i saw him at tricks
• 26:04
  two years ago and had some man hugs with eric let's get him on here.
• 26:09
  Just to tie a knot on this. So what I was saying was, yeah. So I had to,
• 26:14
  yeah, I had to show them the trick before we did it to air. So they're seeing the same thing twice.
• 26:19
  But what was great was for the cube one, I showed him that I could spell out
• 26:24
  the show and then his name, but I didn't tell him that I was going to solve the cube.
• 26:29
  I just said, and then I'll, I'll, I'll solve one color and I'll get you to name the color.
• 26:34
  So in his head, he's thinking, okay, I'm going to say blue. And then I'm going
• 26:37
  to reference this, the blue sky when I do the weather.
• 26:40
  And I added the kicker of actually solving the cube altogether.
• 26:43
  Just so I was expecting you do the trick.
• 26:47
  I was hoping that moment was coming on the inside. So it was satisfying when
• 26:51
  you did that for, you know, because I've never seen the trick before. Love the whole thing.
• 26:56
  Great finish. Thanks, man. Thank you.
• 26:58
  And then, so, but to Scotty's point about the, the producing the bottle of champagne.
• 27:03
  So I had shown him that off air and he freaked
• 27:06
  out I wish I'd just not told him
• 27:09
  that was going to happen and done it first time on air because he freaked out
• 27:12
  way more the first time but the second time when
• 27:15
  you're seeing it on air he still reacts genuinely because he
• 27:18
  still has no idea where the bottle came
• 27:20
  from so his reaction was more about I can't believe
• 27:23
  you got me with that again and I still don't know where it came from so that
• 27:28
  was what you're seeing on the screen and And the last thing I'll say is the
• 27:32
  footage you saw of me doing that was from me using my camera to get Christopher
• 27:39
  Wayne to film me on the news.
• 27:41
  And what I mean by that is we got the footage of the actual recording of the show,
• 27:46
  but it was so not great for social media because it's obviously it's horizontal
• 27:51
  and it's on live TV, which is not 1080p. It's like 720.
• 27:57
  And they had the way they'd given us the footage was from screen
• 28:00
  recording it off the broadcast off their
• 28:03
  own phone and sending it to us so i
• 28:06
  kind of knew that might happen so i with the
• 28:09
  foresight of that took my camera and filmed it all vertically so
• 28:12
  it could be used on instagram and stuff
• 28:15
  and would be vertical and in 4k so i'm
• 28:19
  so happy i did that because those clips did way
• 28:22
  better as a vertical from my own camera you're shooting
• 28:25
  vertical you'll turn the camera then to get that footage
• 28:28
  in this in this instance i did
• 28:31
  yeah because i knew it'd be better just to fill the screen with the magician
• 28:34
  and the presenter instead of you knew you wanted to make vertical content from
• 28:39
  this yeah 100 because we already had the horizontal version right from the tv
• 28:44
  yeah so and they and i asked them do you mind if i film a little behind the
• 28:48
  scenes they're like sure just don't get in the.
• 28:51
  So I filmed us all vertically and, and bloody hell it just more pro advice from Norbita.
• 28:56
  Bring your own camera to the news thing and you'll get better footage and different perspectives.
• 29:01
  So now later you might do a long form with the full thing and then shoot,
• 29:04
  put in footage you have. Yeah. Yeah.
• 29:07
  Yeah. Okay. And then last thing, and then I'll stop talking about myself promise.
• 29:11
  And it's not really about me. This one it's last week.
• 29:14
  We had a speak pipe come in about a gentleman saying he had seen someone do
• 29:19
  this thing where he would pay for stuff using a playing card and create this
• 29:24
  sort of moment of magic in the wild where people didn't know you're going to do magic.
• 29:29
  And they would, he would tap the card and pay for something.
• 29:32
  And I said, and I only remembered yesterday that I'd said this,
• 29:36
  but I said, okay, I'm going to go out and do that.
• 29:40
  And then I, it just occurred to me, oh crap, I have to actually go out and do
• 29:43
  that. Like, it's not just a off the cuff thing to film yourself at a checkout
• 29:49
  and hope that they react and actually do a thing. Like, it's a bit of a.
• 29:54
  As you were saying the words, I was like, oh, shit, he just committed to that. Yeah.
• 29:59
  So I didn't really expect you to follow through. You felt you followed through.
• 30:03
  I had to do it for the listeners. You didn't have to. You could have just glossed it over.
• 30:08
  We all forgot about it. But I'm impressed.
• 30:11
  Thank you. So that's why I only just arrived here before we went live,
• 30:16
  because I went out this morning and bought a bunch of things.
• 30:19
  So I'm going to play the video. What you're seeing is I went and did it three times.
• 30:25
  So you're going to see three different times. I did it three different,
• 30:28
  very different reactions going from like noticed a little bit to notice not
• 30:34
  at all to actually recognize that something magical is happening.
• 30:39
  And anyway so this is what happens when you pay with a playing card i'm going
• 30:43
  to play it for you oh thanks you take card i'll do that see if this one works,
• 30:50
  right thank you oh it worked,
• 30:54
  thank you here goes nothing,
• 31:00
  oh thank you,
• 31:06
  Great. Yeah. Do you take ace card here? No. No? We'll see if it works.
• 31:13
  Hopefully. You haven't? No, they're pretty handy.
• 31:18
  It's a bit of magic for the morning. Anyway. I thought you were going to do
• 31:21
  a little trick. I can. I can.
• 31:24
  A little... That looks much better.
• 31:26
  Music.
• 31:38
  And there you have it, folks. You have to reach it now and do top changes and
• 31:40
  leave them with the card.
• 31:43
  Well, what I was doing was just a little, you know, that color change where
• 31:48
  you like 10-kai it and then you would normally, the Bertram change.
• 31:53
  So I was basically doing that to steal the card off the bottom side.
• 31:57
  So you didn't build a gaffe. That's all slight hand, huh?
• 32:00
  That's, so just to, don't even have it on me. I was basically copying the,
• 32:05
  the, the credit card by my side, like in a gambler's cop.
• 32:09
  I'd show them the card first. Do
• 32:11
  you take ace card? I'd load it as they're answering. Oh, oh, that's right.
• 32:16
  Then I would, then I would pay and then I would Bertram change it just to do
• 32:21
  the steel and I would drop it on the bench.
• 32:23
  So I'm really probably going further than is required, but you know, why not?
• 32:27
  So you could just, I thought the, I thought the card was in the car, but no. Excellent.
• 32:32
  Let's go there you go there you go yeah thank you tim tim says you're a legend
• 32:40
  i appreciate that well that's good then yeah you could so the way i did it i
• 32:44
  could have left the card for them really,
• 32:47
  that's a great magic magazine or submission we
• 32:50
  were talking about magic magazines earlier if i
• 32:53
  was you i would submit that idea to the genie or something
• 32:56
  like that you know one of the things all right
• 32:59
  this one you read the jerks oh yeah
• 33:03
  all right maybe i will
• 33:06
  i'll say that's like a jerks vibe now scott brings
• 33:09
  up a point if you had them pick the card it would probably
• 33:12
  go over better now now here's the thing
• 33:15
  that is possible but it was
• 33:18
  already pretty nerve-wracking going in there knowing a i'm
• 33:21
  filming them yeah b i'm gonna do
• 33:24
  this thing and i don't want it to be like
• 33:27
  nerdy and so to just go into a random stranger and be like hey yeah before i
• 33:33
  pay for that thing that you've just rung up right pick a card it doesn't feel
• 33:37
  natural to or normal or like it feels wrong to kind of be like hey can you pick
• 33:43
  a card now because they already are like.
• 33:45
  In autopilot but i would love to be
• 33:48
  like if you're at like a dinner with the waitress so
• 33:51
  you've established a rapport with then you
• 33:54
  can before i pay the bill take one
• 33:57
  yeah ah scotty p said i thought it was
• 34:00
  a gaffe too that's awesome yeah watch it back down and you
• 34:02
  realize let alone detect that's.
• 34:06
  A good sleight of hand is so go
• 34:10
  out there and try it in the wild it's kind of fun obviously as you saw some people
• 34:13
  were just in autopilot didn't really notice and then for
• 34:16
  the last guy i was like all right i'm just gonna bloody make it so obvious do
• 34:19
  you take ace card i've never seen that before great
• 34:22
  we'll see what works anyway it was fun doing some
• 34:25
  magic in the wild it's a lot of work man thanks man well
• 34:28
  look if you guys have any other challenges give
• 34:31
  it to us send them in a speak pipe and then we'll see
• 34:34
  who have the three of us can do it and because it yeah it's pretty
• 34:37
  fun all right so we did now
• 34:40
  we will get to this finally we i titled this halloween magic
• 34:43
  ideas because we have halloween coming up hold on a
• 34:46
  second i really like that i really like that
• 34:49
  clip and i'm going to encourage you to pursue that it's
• 34:52
  like a carbano effect kind of did
• 34:57
  you put it on social not yet it hasn't
• 35:00
  gone anyway yet i'll be interested to
• 35:03
  see how that does okay i yeah
• 35:06
  i'm definitely open to to putting that clip up like the the last one that could
• 35:11
  be just that general vibe of filming like prank magic from your point of view
• 35:15
  fooling people with what seems to be real magic in the real world but it's not
• 35:20
  like fourth wall it's like your view of the event.
• 35:24
  Okay. I think you might've just. Let's get back to the subject matter.
• 35:27
  I'll try and stay on track. No, no. I think, I think you might've just birthed a new genre of magic.
• 35:32
  I mean, if you don't, I might steal it, but I got to wriggle,
• 35:35
  wrangle up some of them glasses and the money to buy them. Might be a while.
• 35:39
  Yeah. Well, I love to see you doing some of that for sure.
• 35:43
  For sure. Then I have to go back out in public again. Oh, forget it.
• 35:47
  Well, it can be. Yeah, true. Well, I mean, you know,
• 35:50
  it can be when something's being delivered, maybe not the card magic,
• 35:53
  but some other kind of magic i'm going to do a series where
• 35:56
  i try to get my wife to pick a card and see how many ways
• 35:59
  she can say no see that's
• 36:04
  funny can you just get out of my face see that's a headache i like it that's
• 36:10
  yeah yeah but that that stuff's funny too so all right well you know what i'll
• 36:15
  post it then i'll post it on the for those listening i'm going to post it on
• 36:19
  the Instagram, the Magic Guides Instagram.
• 36:21
  I might collaborate with my own page.
• 36:24
  Yeah, let's do more of them. That's kind of fun. All right. So like I was saying, yeah, yeah.
• 36:29
  And it is the Ray-Ban meta glasses that I was using. Just ever knows.
• 36:33
  Boom. I've been having a lot of fun with these. I wish they'd sponsor me.
• 36:37
  We just used them to make a point of view video in our show where at the end,
• 36:42
  the amazing Nigel recalls the whole room's names.
• 36:45
  And these are the clear ones that I wear in the show, because it looks weird
• 36:49
  if I use sunglasses, although it looks weird now with a cap on anyway,
• 36:52
  but yeah, we did this cool point of view where he's,
• 36:56
  naming everyone in the audience, but I'm behind him. So I'm like watching,
• 36:59
  you're seeing him point to each person and say their name.
• 37:03
  These I think are so made for magicians. Honestly, it's pretty awesome.
• 37:10
  Okay. There we go. Now I call this episode Halloween magic ideas.
• 37:14
  A lot of people may have done some Halloween events over the weekend,
• 37:18
  but you're going to have people coming up to trick or treat all this stuff.
• 37:22
  So like it's a good time to talk about spooky magic or haunted magic or,
• 37:26
  or ideas or stories, you know?
• 37:28
  So that's where I sort of would just thought I'd just start us off here.
• 37:32
  Nick, you're a creative guy, you know, what's, what's your thought on Halloween?
• 37:38
  Do you get booked for Halloween gigs? Are you doing holy moly on Halloween?
• 37:41
  What, like, have you thought about what spooky tricks you do?
• 37:45
  Well, I've done heaps over the years for sure. And I was sort of just thinking
• 37:49
  about one of the most memorable ones. And I was doing this, it was actually
• 37:53
  a birthday party that was on Halloween and at a very, very wealthy, crazy, crazy venue.
• 38:00
  And so what happened was they had this kind of like walkway and I was doing
• 38:04
  my head drop effect where my head quite literally falls.
• 38:09
  So you basically, for the effect, you need to kind of wear a trench coat.
• 38:12
  Your head falls off, you catch it in your lap and you put it back on.
• 38:15
  But I was dressed like a zombie, like bleeding from the mouth and stuff.
• 38:18
  So it was kind of funny that I come out and like freak people out.
• 38:21
  Then my head falls off and I put my head back on.
• 38:22
  Like it was really a really fun way to freak people out.
• 38:25
  And I think that is probably one of my most proudest works, I would say.
• 38:31
  Oh, my God. Imagine filming a point of view and then having a secret camera
• 38:36
  as well to film you when people come to trick or treat and you go to hand them
• 38:39
  the bucket and your head falls into the bucket or something.
• 38:42
  Holy crap. If anyone can rig that up between now and Halloween,
• 38:46
  you're guaranteed to get a viral video.
• 38:49
  Holy hell, I'm going to have to talk to Nick and see how I can make this.
• 38:53
  Sorry, see how I can learn this
• 38:54
  amazing real magic. And then that's got me excited. Okay. That's crazy.
• 39:00
  That's one fun thing to do. Hell yeah. You know, I guess another fun thing is like body parts.
• 39:06
  You know what I mean? Like I was talking to my good friend. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 39:10
  Body parts? Well, yeah. I was talking to my good friend, Buck Bowen.
• 39:14
  We come up with a few ideas where you reach behind someone's ear and pull out an ear.
• 39:17
  And we're playing with jokes like that that could be a fun thing to
• 39:20
  do where you reach behind and you remove someone's ear you know and using slight
• 39:26
  of hand put it back that could be a fun thing to do that's cool i did see you
• 39:30
  pluck the hearing aid out of that girl's ear over the over the weekend oh yeah
• 39:34
  i do that a lot on your socials yeah i've seen you do that in person too to uh and.
• 39:41
  To my friend who uh to our friend who who very well is at the age that could
• 39:45
  have hearing aids yeah okay so when
• 39:50
  you think of halloween magic you know obviously things like haunted key,
• 39:55
  that was mentioned earlier comes to mind you know
• 39:58
  i guess this is the one time you might do boris
• 40:02
  the spider right if you're purposely trick or treating
• 40:05
  someone we did talk about that that it should have been retired
• 40:08
  but it does belong come halloween time it might
• 40:11
  be that one day a year where it where it is kind of
• 40:14
  relevant right maybe you
• 40:17
  know instead of double cross like the actual ash version
• 40:21
  is probably much spookier on halloween
• 40:24
  yeah yeah what about um what's the one i want to say it's saw but i don't think
• 40:29
  that's the correct thing you know like with with the you can put them into your
• 40:33
  mouth and pull it through your neck using the the tooth floss oh here's one
• 40:37
  hook the one with the fish with the fish hook oh yeah was that.
• 40:42
  What's his name who released that one i've
• 40:45
  seen that go wrong man i've seen that go wrong oh yeah
• 40:48
  i have holy crap yeah one
• 40:52
  of my guys who works with me good good friend jay cristo it
• 40:55
  didn't go the way it was supposed to and i've got there there
• 40:58
  it is yeah but eric rock that's who it is actually someone
• 41:01
  bought this today it's my last one yeah but i've
• 41:06
  yeah i've i've literally seen like because you got to gank that
• 41:09
  thing as hard as you can i've just seen this guy's head just snap left
• 41:13
  as they pull it it's a real hook it's a real danger yeah i'm gonna share my
• 41:19
  facebook for a minute i was going through some pictures i did a cool gig and
• 41:23
  we have a city park And they had set up a haunted exhibit where I was doing
• 41:28
  mostly family style shows in a little tent like this. Oh, how is that?
• 41:33
  Yeah, it was a cool month-long contract. Hold on.
• 41:37
  But I was doing the cups and balls. And as the finale for the cups and balls,
• 41:40
  I was using small little pumpkins and squash. That's cute. Get a fall festival feel.
• 41:47
  This was a great, yeah, this was a fun one. I like that. That's fun.
• 41:53
  Yeah. This would be perfect.
• 41:55
  What we're putting out there, guys, is let's just put the question out there.
• 41:58
  I mean, the reality is, is like, this is Halloween ideas.
• 42:00
  What are your ideas? How can you spookify an ordinarily normal routine?
• 42:05
  You do a chop cup, but instead of producing a tennis ball, you produce human heart. I don't know.
• 42:12
  Like, how do we spookify existing effects?
• 42:16
  What would you do like what could you do instead of a coins across bugs across
• 42:20
  could you do like a handful of cockroaches you know yeah yeah speaking of cockroaches what i actually.
• 42:29
  Purchased and thought i would do but didn't do is the cockroach appearance i
• 42:34
  think boris it was an app where the roach appears on your phone it's like the
• 42:39
  the web with the spider appearing on the hand,
• 42:42
  but a roach appearing on the back of the hand, I decided that was too much for an audience,
• 42:48
  certainly in New Orleans, where roaches can be more prevalent than usual.
• 42:52
  Yeah, that's risky. But for Halloween, you know, you want that shock factor.
• 42:57
  You want it around your $800 phone? Yeah, that's true. That's true. Good point.
• 43:03
  Didn't that effect just come out of the dismembering your finger,
• 43:07
  like that illusion, like the soaring in half illusion, but there's a finger
• 43:11
  one that came out? Oh, yeah.
• 43:13
  Do you know what we're talking about? Yeah, it's effectively what it looks like
• 43:16
  if memory serves, folks.
• 43:17
  It's like a tube that you put on your finger and then you sever the center of
• 43:21
  it. And I think you can take it off or move it to the side and stuff. Yeah.
• 43:25
  It kind of gives the illusion that you can remove the entire center of it and
• 43:29
  then put it back together again. It's a pretty convincing illusion for what I've seen.
• 43:34
  Stitch. Thank you. That's what we're talking about here. That could be an interesting one.
• 43:38
  I think it would be cooler if you could do it to a person. and that would look so freaky.
• 43:43
  Like, you ever seen, like, the arm chop effect? Yes. Yeah, I got a friend of
• 43:47
  mine who does it, but he does it as, like, a gambling sort of demonstration.
• 43:51
  Not a gambling demonstration, but kind of like, maybe like a Saw movie,
• 43:54
  The Saw, where it's like, you've got to play the game, otherwise you're going to lose a limb.
• 43:58
  And what he does is he cuts the spectator's hand off, but then what he does,
• 44:02
  he shoves their hand inside of a, like, a takeaway cup, but it's got bandages on it.
• 44:07
  So they just get to leave the stage with their hand hidden in this cup but it's
• 44:10
  all bandaged up and he just goes whoops okay he just puts the cup in their hand
• 44:14
  and goes you can leave now and they leave the limb missing so that's a really
• 44:16
  fun one so this is stitch this is just one of their promo pictures so it looks like you can,
• 44:22
  give the illusion of actually pulling your finger off.
• 44:27
  That and you know that's got a very like
• 44:30
  sore-esque kind of vibe to it you know
• 44:32
  there's another version of this effect without the
• 44:36
  tube penguin is selling it and when you remove the finger bone is exposed that's
• 44:42
  great too you reach for it pull off and then there's bone there with blood that's
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  a halloween thing i don't know the name of this but a penguin just advertised a limited supply.
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  It was a hot item at the last Blackpool. I want that because it just looks funny.
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  Have you guys ever seen that release where they had what looked like a blockhead
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  effect, but it was effectively a signed card up your nose, and yet you pull
• 45:07
  it instead of pulling a nail out of your nose, you pull a playing card out of it?
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  Have you guys ever seen that one? Maybe I'm better off for that.
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  And then there's also the I forget the gentleman's name that created it,
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  but the one where you put a playing card over your finger and then you can stab
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  a knife through it oh yeah,
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  tell you what you do for inspiration go watch any magic
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  amazing jonathan special like this
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  guy was a master of falling in the
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  eye effects yeah yeah
• 45:41
  there was an effect recently that i saw
• 45:44
  a friend perform in vegas and that person has
• 45:47
  now released it but where you rub your
• 45:50
  eye and as you're rubbing your eye you you show
• 45:53
  like black like that your eye is it's
• 45:57
  missing from your socket and then you open your mouth you can see
• 45:59
  an eyeball looking at you in your mouth and
• 46:03
  then you can someone had it where you scoop it out with the spoon that was scott
• 46:08
  alexander that released that one scott alexander yeah hmm yeah see i like that
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  hands away but this one looks it looks phenomenal like you're literally rubbing your eye,
• 46:20
  you do this and then you open your mouth and your eyeballs in your mouth and you wipe again.
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  And then your eyeballs back. And it's, it's really clever.
• 46:29
  Like the whole finger off extreme. That's the name of the other one.
• 46:32
  Finger off extreme. Yeah.
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  I'm really stuck on this head dropping idea to spook people coming to your door.
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  I mean, it's not this, but whatever. Yes.
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  How are you doing? Look, if anyone out there can send us a video of them doing
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  it to trick someone when they come to their door, you can have all our merch. Okay.
• 46:56
  If you send us a video of you doing that, that's awesome. This has been my new
• 47:00
  street act. I'm bringing this out to the people.
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  It's angly, but I'll work with it. i can control the angle now that you should
• 47:10
  write you should write into the jerks.
• 47:14
  See that's funny that's funny me too
• 47:17
  baby just created it but that is funny my goodness
• 47:20
  now my throat hurts you know how my wife feels i
• 47:23
  mean she doesn't have to deal with this much but you get the idea ah
• 47:27
  geez geez now there was a conversation in
• 47:30
  our discord because obviously when we bring up halloween magic there's
• 47:34
  pk touch comes up and people were
• 47:37
  asking like what is your by the
• 47:39
  way we have a magic discord if you're not in it
• 47:42
  you're missing out it's where we can really yeah get away from the muggles and
• 47:46
  just chat about whatever the magic things are we need to talk about and people
• 47:50
  are bringing up a few a few versions like where it's taught peter turner has
• 47:54
  one luke jimay has one obviously banachek has one people are mentioning midas
• 47:59
  touch by peter turner and And then there's also the one,
• 48:02
  I have it, I just forget what it is, where you're doing this,
• 48:06
  like you're pointing at their shoulder and their arm goes up.
• 48:09
  And the method is a bit different to your standard Banachek.
• 48:12
  There's a few out there, but, um, so obviously PK touch could be a thing.
• 48:17
  There is a version when you take a spectator's pinky and mangle it,
• 48:22
  you take their pinky and bend it in an indescribable fashion.
• 48:26
  I've seen magicians do this insane
• 48:30
  stunt we talked about doing it with spectators
• 48:33
  earlier it's technically possible to mangle someone's
• 48:37
  finger and restore you know what i think the name of that trick you'll impress
• 48:41
  me i think if you added if you added a kind of audible scariness to it like
• 48:47
  like you like the net cracker gimmick like that could be fun if you were like
• 48:51
  doing it and you and you're you're hearing this audible crack as you're sort of dismembering,
• 48:56
  somebody you know a person i really have to pee somebody back in two seconds.
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  You guys keep it going tmi tmi josh,
• 49:08
  man i need to find that footage of eduardo mangling a spectator's pinky it can't be safe,
• 49:14
  because i've seen effects okay because i remember
• 49:17
  my tim ellis who is got some really really clever magic he does a couple of
• 49:20
  things themed around the halloween game he does this like cutting off a spectator's
• 49:26
  finger and there's some audible bits and some blood and whatever else and he
• 49:29
  puts a finger back together that's a good one what's also really cool that he
• 49:33
  does is he does a linking rings,
• 49:37
  but with barbed wire like circular barbed wire like razor wire and so like he's
• 49:43
  linking them and unlinking them kind of while his hands are bleeding I suppose.
• 49:47
  Hold on let's look at what he does to this woman.
• 49:51
  Okay so this is the effect where he's destroying a woman's finger?
• 49:58
  Yeah watch what he does. He takes her pinky and then he bends it at this insane angle Look at that.
• 50:06
  Like, and that might, that might not be the super best clip.
• 50:11
  She's obviously, is that possibly staged?
• 50:14
  I don't know. Is it something that everyone is inherently able to do?
• 50:20
  Whether or not you can do it should you like should you grab someone's hand
• 50:25
  and risk bodily injury eduardo i love you brother but oh my what yeah yeah i
• 50:33
  think where if anyone does that in any capacity to me like i'll i'll lose it
• 50:37
  you know what i mean if somebody was trying to do that and,
• 50:40
  yeah so it's a pretty interesting angle he's bending it at but is it just an
• 50:45
  illusion is the kind of like is
• 50:47
  it generally not affecting anybody i don't know i don't want to find out.
• 50:53
  I don't know i think customer experience in my world is key so it's that it
• 50:57
  just depends but we're talking about halloween now so like i guess we have merit to be able to terrify,
• 51:04
  our folks and that's kind of important so i'm trying to draw the line of bodily
• 51:10
  injury Okay, let's do that.
• 51:12
  Well, I'm trying to think of what would be a scary-ish card trick.
• 51:16
  I guess you could do it with tarot cards and freak people out.
• 51:20
  You know what's a good one? Paul Wilson has a version of Color Monty.
• 51:24
  Okay. Classic Color Monty effect. He tells the classic tale but does it with tarot cards.
• 51:31
  And then the final card is the death card, which is like, oh.
• 51:35
  Yeah. It kind of makes sense. It's like a gypsy Monty kind of feel, you know?
• 51:40
  Yeah. Yeah. Better than that dumb $14 card or the $14 cards.
• 51:45
  Okay. It's those colored diamonds. I can't, it's the blue and the red diamonds on color model.
• 51:51
  Worst idea ever. I can't believe that trick ever got popular. Yeah.
• 51:57
  I'm trying to weigh in on that. Go on. To weigh in on that finger twisting, mangling one as well.
• 52:02
  That's an effect that came out a long time ago and then it went off the market.
• 52:07
  And I think it's because Dynamo might've bought.
• 52:11
  Like might've bought that effect from them to take off the site because Dynamo
• 52:14
  would do it a lot in his early videos and stuff.
• 52:17
  But I remember learning it because I remember doing it in the beginning thinking
• 52:20
  like, Oh, this is how I do real magic.
• 52:22
  You know, I start to do stuff like this and it does hurt when you do it.
• 52:26
  So like not, not crutch, like scrutinizing, but, um, it does hurt when you do it.
• 52:32
  So for sure that woman had to be, at least be told like, Hey,
• 52:36
  I'm going to do something with your finger. Is it okay?
• 52:38
  Like it might, you might feel some pressure but just go with it so
• 52:41
  she might be reacting to it but it definitely cannot and
• 52:45
  should not be just done on a random spectator for damn
• 52:48
  sure doug we see you tinkering is that type of
• 52:51
  voodoo effect because i was just thinking to myself a voodoo effect would be
• 52:53
  cool scott mentioned anyone new orleans afraid
• 52:56
  of voodoo theme tricks so i developed it's
• 52:59
  a this is a two wall envelope right so this
• 53:03
  is just two envelopes back to back if you
• 53:06
  put a divider down the middle now each one
• 53:08
  has two predictions so you have four outs here i'm
• 53:12
  missing one of the outs but the way these zoodoo dolls are constructed here's
• 53:16
  my theory look at this concept this dot bleeds through so that could be the
• 53:20
  right leg or the left leg and the same is true okay so this one is anything
• 53:25
  in the middle this one is anything in the head and then the one that's missing is the arm,
• 53:32
  which is the same as the leg, but it's right arm, left arm, right?
• 53:35
  So this way you're able to have effigy on the table, a voodoo doll.
• 53:40
  The spectator stabs it anywhere.
• 53:42
  You open your prediction and the voodoo doll, and this is just a mock-up.
• 53:46
  It could be a little more intense than what I'm showing here.
• 53:49
  Your voodoo doll is predicting what they've done.
• 53:52
  So there's a Doug Conn exclusive inspired by a Dan Harlan trick he put in Minotaur years ago.
• 53:59
  Carry this in your wallet. This is all good stuff. Doug, will you have people
• 54:04
  knock on your door for Halloween?
• 54:06
  I will. Yeah. I'll have the lights off probably. That's how you give the signal
• 54:11
  if you're open to business or not.
• 54:13
  Here's the thing. I did Halloween for 20 years with my children.
• 54:18
  Had enough of it. Now I'm old and would rather not.
• 54:22
  Be bothered for hours on end. Uh-huh. I did my part.
• 54:28
  I gave a lot of candy away to a lot of kids with a lot of joy in my younger years.
• 54:33
  And now I'm the old guy in the corner whose lights aren't on.
• 54:36
  There's plenty of houses that are. But what about for content?
• 54:40
  You know, you stick it into 360 by the door.
• 54:43
  I'm going to go in the French Quarter Thursday, actually, on Halloween.
• 54:46
  It's a lively spot to be on Halloween Day.
• 54:48
  And we're going to see what's going on down there. Will I do a show?
• 54:51
  Maybe. mainly just looking to see some kindred spirits
• 54:54
  and film a little might do a live so that
• 54:58
  and it'll be a busy week i'll probably come back later that weekend
• 55:01
  and it's been a while since i've been down there filming at
• 55:04
  all so yeah maybe we'll get some french quarter content
• 55:07
  from con tent yeah you
• 55:10
  know it nice it's the best time to
• 55:14
  come to new orleans if you ever consider visiting the city
• 55:17
  halloween weekend is the best this
• 55:20
  last weekend was ruined by the taylor swifties who
• 55:23
  invaded the city god love them thank you for coming not
• 55:27
  my scene apparently ruined most
• 55:31
  of the halloween festivities you know it's normally a little
• 55:33
  bit debaucherous in new orleans for halloween and
• 55:36
  it might have been a little bit too pink this this
• 55:40
  past weekend bloody bloody swifty dude
• 55:44
  she did three concerts at the superdome 65 000
• 55:47
  seats sold it out every night are you kidding me
• 55:50
  wow imagine it's like
• 55:54
  it's sell it out once okay sell out the superdome three nights in a row and
• 55:59
  she probably could have done it she could probably still be doing shows there
• 56:03
  right now it's unbelievable what's her end game like do you does she want to
• 56:07
  do a residency in vegas like Celine Dion you know.
• 56:11
  She'd save it up for a zigzag And gonna break out into the magic market Yeah
• 56:16
  we know 50 Cent Does that in his concert because We've talked about this but Marcus said he is his.
• 56:22
  Theater shows we talked about this we had we had
• 56:25
  uh so we had we had marcus eddie come on and talk about it but yeah but because
• 56:31
  i went i went and saw the concert and it was a great concert but the magic yeah
• 56:35
  it was like he appeared from a smoke chamber and then like he did a run around
• 56:39
  effect where he disappeared from the stage and appeared over here lots of quick changes,
• 56:45
  puff of smoke covered him and then he came out in all white to sing his pimpin song pimp,
• 56:52
  that's the that's the next wave so now oh i mean taylor swift
• 56:55
  has done an effect where she died she dove
• 56:58
  under the stage and then the stage was digital and she's swimming and then she's
• 57:02
  out her outfits changed when she gets the other end i saw an image of a ufo
• 57:06
  beaming light down onto her and so there might be a moment where a ufo flies
• 57:12
  out and like that seems kind of magical in its own way,
• 57:16
  like imagine if if taylor swift paid
• 57:20
  copperfield millions of dollars to actually like create
• 57:24
  a copperfield-esque level magic for
• 57:28
  a concert that would be insane she's got the budget you know look we could do
• 57:33
  it it's just one of us has to learn how to sing like impeccably and get maybe
• 57:40
  get a sex change perhaps that will okay you talk me into it i'll be the front man all right.
• 57:46
  Excellent the front man you say well we'll see about
• 57:49
  that i've just been looking to get that text change for a while
• 57:52
  if i can get that done that'd be great one less thing i
• 57:55
  gotta worry about and it's tax deductible if it's
• 57:57
  for the purpose of performing on stage like for work is what i'm what i'm getting
• 58:02
  it does that include the top of course yeah of course because then you'll have
• 58:08
  a built-in topic for when you're performing duh it'll hold yeah these are great
• 58:13
  final words all All right, we're going to go to the final word.
• 58:15
  I reckon, Nick, you got this this week. I reckon we'll give Nick the final word. Yeah, you bet.
• 58:19
  Here we go. Thank you for joining us. See ya.
• 58:24
  Well, friends, thanks again for joining us in this wonderful episode of The Magic Guys.
• 58:28
  Please go forth, spread your magic. If you are doing Halloween magic,
• 58:32
  do it with the best of intentions, do it to entertain and make people smile
• 58:35
  and avoid dismembering or giving anyone physical harm and hurting them.
• 58:40
  Have a wonderful week. We'll see you guys next time.
• 58:44
  Thanks for listening. It's time for us to disappear now.
• 58:50
  But we'll see you again on the next episode of The Magic Guys.