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The Naked Magicians Come To DPAC · The Erica Show

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  Speaker 1: Do you want to have five? It is the Erica Show, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: This show is so amazing. I remember when the founders
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  Speaker 1: came through years ago, the Naked Magicians, which is Aussy's
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  Speaker 1: smash hit direct from Vegas. But it's also the naughtiest
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  Speaker 1: and funniest show on earth. And it's coming to DPAK
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  Speaker 1: going to be here April fourteenth, so just next week
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  Speaker 1: and grab those tickets now dpakanc dot com. I've been
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  Speaker 1: given away Girls' night out tickets, which the fellows have
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  Speaker 1: also been trying to win.
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  Speaker 3: The tickets.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have them yet, go grab them dpakanc dot com.
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  Speaker 1: But we've got Anton and jack On and y'all are
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  Speaker 1: our Naked Magicians coming to DEPAC.
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  Speaker 3: We're so excited.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's so excited too, very very excited to go
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  Speaker 2: back North Carolina the first time in Durham. We are
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  Speaker 2: stoked to be there.
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  Speaker 3: How many cities is the tour on?
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  Speaker 2: So over two hundred and fifty cities is where the
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  Speaker 2: show has played. So this tour specifically is the US
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  Speaker 2: twenty sixth tour. So we started just last month or
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  Speaker 2: two months ago. Now in February, we've hit about forty
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  Speaker 2: shows forty cities so far, and that'll be the entire tour. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: two fifty dollars in global where it's bean life. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's been everywhere, ves, it's been everywhere. It really acts.
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  Speaker 1: Do you get a chance to explore the cities when
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  Speaker 1: you're visiting or you kind of you do the show
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  Speaker 1: and you're in and out.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we always make sure to take some time to
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  Speaker 2: get to know the city a little bit, get to
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  Speaker 2: know the amazing people there, especially if we have time
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  Speaker 2: before the show. You'll find us strolling around. I'm often
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  Speaker 2: wearing the Naked Magician's t shirt and people will stop
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  Speaker 2: us in the street and say, I'm coming to the
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  Speaker 2: show tonight.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: So there's always a great time whenever we're strolling around.
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  Speaker 2: And then after the show too, of course, we like
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  Speaker 2: to check out the local nightlife, so we're very excited
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  Speaker 2: to see what Durham has in store for us.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so I give this question a lot because I
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  Speaker 1: have seen the show. It's really fantastic. But how naked
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  Speaker 1: do you get? That's literally they're like, wait, they're naked.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, yes, they're naked. So how naked do you get?
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  Speaker 2: No, we get that question a lot too. So, like
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  Speaker 2: obviously the show is called The Naked Magicians. Being naked
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  Speaker 2: is a big part of this show. But like anything,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we kind of don't We don't like to
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  Speaker 2: start not so bold right away because we have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people who come see this right now. Everyone
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  Speaker 2: is coming to see the nakedness solely. Some people do
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  Speaker 2: want to come see the magic, some people want to
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  Speaker 2: see the comedy of it. So we kind of start off.
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  Speaker 2: We start up fully closed and I'm sure people have
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  Speaker 2: being looked us up online. They'll see if you know,
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  Speaker 2: and we have shoots on and then part of the routine,
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  Speaker 2: you know, as we get from one trick to the next,
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  Speaker 2: is we do start stripping off clothes and there's like
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  Speaker 2: kind of competitions within the show of like if this
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  Speaker 2: happens and I take off this, if this happens and
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  Speaker 2: Antoun takes off this. So it is kind of a
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  Speaker 2: fun game to play every night. It is a little different,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, especially the guests and who we have
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  Speaker 2: up at stage, they kind of help us, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with the nakedness out just the disclaimer too. Any guest
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  Speaker 2: who comes up on stage or us remain closed. We
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  Speaker 2: are the only people. We do get that a lot too.
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  Speaker 2: It's like I show up on stage, do I have
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  Speaker 2: to get naked too? It's like, no, We're the only
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  Speaker 2: one doing it. And it's a lot of fun in
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  Speaker 2: the audience. Is they certainly a reaction to it. I
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  Speaker 2: believe it's like a big first day. You know, it
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  Speaker 2: tots off very classy. Yeah, there's two gentlemen wearing our suits,
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  Speaker 2: and then over time it gets a little naughtier and
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  Speaker 2: then maybe one thing comes off and maybe another. Oh
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  Speaker 2: and by the end of the show, Erica, it's a
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  Speaker 2: totally different story.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so the.
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  Speaker 1: Hat, the top hat, has that ever fallen? And do
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  Speaker 1: you get nervous about that falling?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? It's all jack there. Yeah, yeah, so the top hat.
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  Speaker 2: Really I had a great streak. I've been doing the
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  Speaker 2: show since December of last year, and you know, I
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  Speaker 2: haven't had it happened to be once and then we
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  Speaker 2: were in a certain city and I'll leave the city
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  Speaker 2: off the map right now. But they the woman dropped
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  Speaker 2: the hat for the first time in that specific performance.
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  Speaker 2: She didn't jop with just once, but she dropped it
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  Speaker 2: four separate times the same night. So it's like it's
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  Speaker 2: not a part of the show, but it is. It's
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  Speaker 2: kind of one of this it is magic. You are
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  Speaker 2: trusting someone you know, kind of hold the hat and
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  Speaker 2: sometimes it does drop and listen. We don't get nervous really,
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  Speaker 2: it's more if the audience is having fun. They usually
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  Speaker 2: love that reaction anyway, so they kind of want it
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  Speaker 2: to happen. Yeah, of course we did that. Of course, right,
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  Speaker 2: that's what people come and see it for. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: for us, it's more about as long as we're making
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  Speaker 2: sure that the show quality, integrity of the show, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's still intact. That's that's the most important thing to us.
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  Speaker 2: And if it drops, it's part of the part of
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  Speaker 2: the comedy. It's part of the Yeah, that's one of
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  Speaker 2: the coolest things about the show. We get different volunteers
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  Speaker 2: up on stage every night, so we never know what's
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  Speaker 2: going to happen, and we've had some wild events take
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  Speaker 2: place on that stage when we get the right person
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  Speaker 2: up there, and we're hoping, we're hoping we get some
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  Speaker 2: of those folks in Durham.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you definitely will drum's wild. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: That's where I'm from originally now, how often do women
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  Speaker 1: in particular, and I'm sure guys to slide into your
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  Speaker 1: dms and flirt with y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, you know a lot, a lot, I would say,
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  Speaker 2: But also too, I mean it's it's fair because we're
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  Speaker 2: flirting with them throughout the show too. I mean, that
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  Speaker 2: is what the show is about. We're on stage, we're
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  Speaker 2: getting naked. We have this flirtacious energy that we're giving
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  Speaker 2: to the audience, especially you know in certain cities, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with super Pool about Dirham. We're so excited
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  Speaker 2: that Charlotte was one of our craziest shows with an
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  Speaker 2: audience you know, North Carolina, North Carolinians. And then the
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  Speaker 2: show Your Wild we love it, and like you know,
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  Speaker 2: I do remember in Charlotte, it's like that theater specifically,
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  Speaker 2: we really were able to see, you know, the audience
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  Speaker 2: lit pretty well, so it's like we're looking into the
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  Speaker 2: eyes of the audience numbers. We're telling these jokes and
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  Speaker 2: we're having fun, we're stripping. It's it's all part of
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  Speaker 2: the fun. So it's like, yes, we we do get
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  Speaker 2: a decent amount of flirtatious invice, but we're also again
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  Speaker 2: we're we're on the road so much too, and you
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  Speaker 2: know right away we're usually packing up back of the
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  Speaker 2: show and hopefully sometimes we get to a bar after,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, we're only a Durham for I think
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  Speaker 2: for one night. Yeah, we're in and out and then
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  Speaker 2: we league, so it is. It is business at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day. But don't hear you're wrong. We
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  Speaker 2: love it and we love the attention, and it's it's
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  Speaker 2: very fun and everyone's been super fun and respectful and of.
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  Speaker 1: Course you are super talented magicians like people. Yes, yes
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  Speaker 1: you're naked, but the tricks that you do so many
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  Speaker 1: times I've watched the show where I'm like, wait, how
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  Speaker 1: do they do that? Do you have people coming up
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  Speaker 1: asking how is that trick done?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? Well, great thing about our show that it's magic,
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  Speaker 2: it's comedy and it's also nudity. So sometimes people get
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  Speaker 2: caught up on the magic tricks, but sometimes they get
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  Speaker 2: caught up on the other parts of it. So if
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  Speaker 2: you ever spend too long thinking about how the magic
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  Speaker 2: trick is done, you look away for a second and
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  Speaker 2: then Jack loses his pan and then you're not thinking
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  Speaker 2: about that magic trick anymore. Right, Yeah, you're thinking about
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  Speaker 2: different type of magic, there's another trying to figure out
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  Speaker 2: that's usually where it goes to. And and yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: do have it. You know the magic you got trained
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  Speaker 2: for this show, and it is It is a nervous
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  Speaker 2: part of the show, right because making sure the magic
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  Speaker 2: goes right, but we do. What is so fun about
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  Speaker 2: the show, Like, let's just say a magic trick goes wrong,
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  Speaker 2: which really we haven't had that happen yet, but if
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  Speaker 2: it does, it's it is part of the comedy. It
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  Speaker 2: is part of the improv of the show. It's live entertainment.
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  Speaker 2: And I love so much about the show is that
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  Speaker 2: you don't shy away from moments that go wrong, right
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  Speaker 2: you just own it. You accept it. This is happening
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  Speaker 2: right now, and you just kind of play it off
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  Speaker 2: as the strength. And I think that's an audience really
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  Speaker 2: what audience one just loves so much about this show.
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  Speaker 2: Typically it's just so raw, it's honest. There's nothing where
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  Speaker 2: we literally aren't hiding anything in this show. We are
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  Speaker 2: showing everything. This is who we are. There are some
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  Speaker 2: magic tricks to it, but like that's the only part
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of covered in this show. Everything else is
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  Speaker 2: very very clearly in the open for Durham's gonna get
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  Speaker 2: a They're gonna get it, They're gonna see it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know a lot of us girls like it
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  Speaker 1: when we're like we here, we're gonna get it anyway.
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  Speaker 1: But okay, So, how do you feel like if your
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  Speaker 1: parents or your civil or a family and friends or
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  Speaker 1: to come to the show, does that make you nervous?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, We've had lots of friends come to the show
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  Speaker 2: and they've all loved it, even ough even our guy
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  Speaker 2: friends are college friends. They come in and they love it.
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  Speaker 2: As for parents, though, well, my mom thinks that I'm
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  Speaker 2: still in my thirty year of medical school right now. Okay, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: she's listening. Yeah, and she's listening surprise. Yeah she I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if she's living. I don't think she's listening
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  Speaker 2: to the drum radio right now. Hopefully she's not.
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  Speaker 1: We're worldwide, though, she can listen anywhere. I'm gonta send
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  Speaker 1: it to your mom.
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  Speaker 2: Y, Yeah, tell it to his moob. He should know that.
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  Speaker 2: My mom, on the other hand, you know, she she
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  Speaker 2: has been very She's supportive of the entertainment. All my
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  Speaker 2: friends really, they're supportive. This gig is so fun, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it is it is a wild, wild gig compared to
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  Speaker 2: what I kind of grew up in the musical theater world.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like I was going from doing you know,
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  Speaker 2: lay mid to making magicians. So it was definitely kind
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  Speaker 2: of a jump of the stylish show that I was doing.
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  Speaker 2: But they understand and I get this. I've done to
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  Speaker 2: see so many of my friends on this tour, just
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  Speaker 2: who are in random cities that were close by, and
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  Speaker 2: they get to see me perform and have fun and
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  Speaker 2: they get to be in that environment, Like I have
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  Speaker 2: three of my baseball buddies from college to come see it,
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  Speaker 2: and they were saying they were like, even if you
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  Speaker 2: weren't in the show, we would love we were. Just
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  Speaker 2: it was hilarious. And that's that's what I think. People
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  Speaker 2: the expectations of what they have seeing the show, they're
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  Speaker 2: kind of never on the nose. They expect one thing,
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  Speaker 2: and when they see the show, it is a little
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  Speaker 2: bit different and we're unique in that way, which.
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  Speaker 1: Is very fun, which lean into this question like when
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  Speaker 1: did you find out like there's an audition opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: the naked magicians because you saying you were doing other
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  Speaker 1: musical things before, so what.
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  Speaker 3: Led you to this role.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. So actually my older brother he's also an
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  Speaker 2: actor and he also is a casting director too. He
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  Speaker 2: lived out in La so he sees a lot of
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  Speaker 2: auditions in a given day and he saw this one
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  Speaker 2: and he said it to me. It was on an
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  Speaker 2: Actor's Access, which is pretty much you know, LinkedIn in
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  Speaker 2: the actors world, entertainment world, and he saw it. He
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  Speaker 2: sent it to me and as a joke, he was like, Jack,
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  Speaker 2: you're going on tour. That was literally a text he
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  Speaker 2: set me because like the breakdown was twenty to forty
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  Speaker 2: years old, in shape, you know, like has comedy and
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  Speaker 2: stage presence, you know, a lot of experience. And so
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  Speaker 2: I sent it. Within five minutes of me sending my
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  Speaker 2: initial kind of submission, I got an email back from
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  Speaker 2: the writer and you know it's Australian dud Chris who
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  Speaker 2: you saw. I was like, good day night, like, well
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  Speaker 2: you love kind of willing to come to Boston for
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  Speaker 2: the show, and within I mean, in the entertainment world,
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  Speaker 2: it was crazy. It never happens back quickly. You got
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  Speaker 2: to wait a while before you hear something. And within
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  Speaker 2: three weeks to be submitting, I moved to Boston. I
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  Speaker 2: quit my job. I was living in Chicago, and I
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  Speaker 2: kind of fully committed to this show, and i've been
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  Speaker 2: I haven't looked back then.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I was in Boston, exciting. I was in Boston originally
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  Speaker 2: when the show came up to Boston and they were
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  Speaker 2: looking for new performers. And it's just when one application
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  Speaker 2: all you send out on a whim, you think this
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  Speaker 2: might be interesting, and then one conversation turns into another
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  Speaker 2: and then here we are at the Deepak. I love
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  Speaker 2: that it happens sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: All right, last question before I let yo go. I
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  Speaker 3: know you're busy. Do you ever get to pick out?
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  Speaker 1: Because of course you have to be in shape, look
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  Speaker 1: amazing on stage, But do you ever pick out and
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  Speaker 1: just get off course?
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  Speaker 2: Here we try some of the local delicacies. So we're
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  Speaker 2: in Chicago right now, we're making sure we try just
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of the deep Dish pizza. Is there
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  Speaker 2: anything we should be looking out for in Durham, any
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  Speaker 2: local delicacies?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Durham is considered the foody spot of the South,
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  Speaker 1: so there's a lot of great restaurants right located around
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  Speaker 1: the Deepak area. I mean, barbecue is obviously a Southern
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  Speaker 1: thing if that was, if you're interested in trying.
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  Speaker 2: But there's a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: Good spots across, Like there's a steakhouse right by you
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  Speaker 1: that's really great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, then I will feel like, well we'll be trying
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  Speaker 2: a little Durham barbecue for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely Well, depakc dot com, grab your tickets.
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  Speaker 3: I'll see out the show. Fingers cross.
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  Speaker 1: I get pulled up on stage with all because you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm all about being a volunteer.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, okay, we can make that happen. Okay, make
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  Speaker 2: that happen.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: We're so excited to be there.