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Doug's Vegas Reboot! #285 · The Magic Guys

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They're guys. They do magic. They are the Magic Guys.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode 285 of the Magic Guys.
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To my left is Doug Kahn.
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Hey, I'm back. That's what we call this episode. I'm back.
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Yeah, he's back, baby. I was actually back last week, but our guest bailed on
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us today, so we had to come up with an episode, so now it's me.
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We wanted a reason to have an episode where we can catch everyone up on what
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you're doing in Vegas, and it just happened to work out.
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Nick is also here. It's just that I guess we're going to hear the story when
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he comes back, but he said he just went to the rescue to help jumpstart someone's
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car or something. I love that.
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Nick is using his powers for good.
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Oh yeah no that was me so like we do his camera is logged in it's just not at
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the at the screen right now but we also have our friends in the chat here with us what's up Tim Afskin,
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Scotty Link oh yeah bros the boys are here thanks for tuning in,
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I'm running with a slight cold today so if you're wondering why he has that
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sexy deep voice going on such a boss I told Norbita You should do what I do
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and just hide for a month. Go be sick. It's okay.
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It would be nice. I could do the Just Me episode by myself. I don't need you,
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man. I could do this alone.
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That's true. That's true. But, you know, I've seen you been doing it on your
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own channel by yourself. Back in the saddle.
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I'm climbing back on it. Yeah. Yeah. How does it feel?
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It's a lot in my brain but once i once i get on there and start doing it it
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feels like you know sitting in a comfortable couch i really feel like what i'm
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doing is what i should be doing and,
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i don't know you know you want to get these things right so you put pressure
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on yourself and it's a lot going on so lining up all the things to make all
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of these things work you know you do this and your channel and you're a professional it's hard right,
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yeah and if you get out of the swing of it it can be it can be bloody hard to
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get back into it again yeah oh boy let me tell you about that and also about
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what i've been through health-wise recently just to be able to uh
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say words again much less sit upright so,
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yeah yeah yeah so take us through it like where do we start is it is it when you,
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decide to leave trick supply is that when this kind of adventure starts let's
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start here for years i've wanted to have some dental upgrades going back to
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i was actually 18 years old i broke a tooth and i had a bridge put in
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when i was like young 18 20 and then 15 years later that thing broke in my mouth
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and took a couple teeth with it,
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and through the years that just led to my upper mouth you know not being healthy so.
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About two months ago i don't know the exact date but i elected to have all of the teeth removed and,
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that's a temporary denture if you're watching online that wearing i'll have
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a permanent denture that's improved and more comfortable i'll be able to speak
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better but so that's always been in my plan and i i'm super happy to have that done,
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it was a nightmare to be clear but it's over now,
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yeah i mean hey it looks good just from even that being a temporary one yeah
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and it'll look much better and i also have a partial lower that i've struggled
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with i'm not wearing and all of this is temporary and we'll be improved.
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So that's the biggest roller coaster in my life. And yes, I've left Chick Supply.
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That was the job that brought me to Las Vegas.
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And no regrets.
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I put some blood, sweat, and tears into that job. I think I killed it. I crushed it there.
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I can't imagine doing a much better job than I did. And now I'm on to doing just me again.
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And I'm pretty happy about that, actually. There's a lot I want to get done in this city,
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or myself and really around the world around the united states and i can't do
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that if i'm working a full-time job you know five six days a week 60 hours a
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week so yeah back to being an artist again and that's thrilling.
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If I've noticed anything from, from your work, like your skill set,
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Doug, is that your ability to just like make a dramatic change in your life
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when it's needed is remarkable.
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Like to up and leave the Orleans, for example, you know, jump to trick supply
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to leave trick supply, to start doing content full time back when COVID COVID
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was around. Like here's, here's the key to that.
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It's having bad mental health and being able to sustain anything long-term.
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And then eventually you learn to roll with the punches.
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You know, I'm a dreamer. I'm a delusional individual. And yeah,
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like Vegas, I always wanted to be here. When I was in New Orleans,
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when I was 20, the plan was to be out on the West Coast.
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So when the stars aligned, it seemed right to do it. I took that chance.
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It was the same thing that brought me to New Orleans. You know, I'm from Cincinnati.
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Ready but you know traveling the streets street performing i needed to go to
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new orleans to do that so and then you know five years from now who knows where
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i'll be talking about my vegas years and what we're on to the next thing yeah
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that's a lot of plants that's when you'll be,
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you'll be doing vlogging and a show in dubai because of the the tax-free who
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knows country i got my first vlog done that was an that was a anxiety-ridden
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nightmare too but it's done it's
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in the can and And that's what I'm most excited about moving forward is,
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showing really the world, the magic scene in Las Vegas.
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There's 24 ticketed major magic shows. I'm going to go to most of them.
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And then there's a dozen plus regular magic events that happen in this city.
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Things like the Las Vegas Magic Luncheon, the Gary Darwin Magic Club,
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the International Brotherhood of Magicians, and so on.
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And there's a lot of little niche things, street performing,
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things of that nature that I can, you know, share with my viewers online.
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I hope some of you find the content good as I learn how to do it gooder.
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Yeah, so that's happening too.
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And we were just fangirling a little bit this camera that i can see behind you
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that's what you're using in your vlog yeah let's talk about a little bit about tech,
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you know about our tech on this channel and absolutely because you know for
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a while you me and jason ma were you know nerding out about the sony zve1 which is what i'm,
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using right now and we used to take it with us outside to vlog or to shoot street magic and,
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what i'm realizing now especially after seeing your vlog of how clear it was
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that maybe we don't have to take such a big rig like out outside so what the
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hell is this thing yeah this is the shit this is the dgi,
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osmos pocket 3,
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okay it'll shoot in landscape or vertical and it will adjust as you turn the camera,
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the camera has a gimbal built into it so the footage that you get is excellent it compensates great,
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you tap this right here i think it'll let me see.
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There you go so that that that my camera's not capturing it but there's a little
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joystick here that allows you to control the camera from the gimbal as well,
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wow and yeah this thing's a rock star man i saw jeremy tan started using one of these,
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and at first i thought maybe it's just a brand deal that he was working with
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and as time goes on i realized he was putting this thing to work i did some due diligence and,
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i took a chance on i guess the creator kit which also includes this.
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This microphone's great, in my opinion. This is the DJI 2, I think.
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It integrates seamlessly with this pocket camera.
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And for about $600 or $700, you'd be rocking it.
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Damn. It's such a small unit you can just take with you now.
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Yeah, it's got a... Tim asked what about the storage. It's got a SD card slot,
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so you can put as much as you want in there, terabyte if you want.
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I think I got a 500 meg card. Mmm.
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Have you played around with any low light situations with it if you go through
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the menus here there's one for low light and one of the reasons that i bought
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this camera is for the low light settings
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so you'll see that a low light tab is integrated into it so yeah it's,
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exceptional for low light wow because that that's the only reason i've you know
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not used a gopro and stuff in the past is because,
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in a gig situation where you're in a dimly lit room it's like always grainy and just not
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doing its job but like that yeah i'm really i'm working wonderground september
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17th that's the uh will bradshaw jeff mcbride magic experience we do monthly here
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and it's always dark in there i always try to get footage and it's always crappy
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it always looks blue and shitty so i'm really looking forward to taking this
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out and that'll be one of the vlogs coming up soon with uh yeah.
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I've also been shooting my short forms like the 3d printing videos it's got
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time lapse and things like that on it all the content you've seen from me is
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being shot with this everything right now damn,
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well my dogs are happy to see nick on the stream nick,
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you yeah you had a story for us you just saved someone's car or something a
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son of life yeah so there was a damsel in distress who needed a jumper of that
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so there's a ton of construction happening at the front of my place they're
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going to be like building this whole like sound wall
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uh to keep sound out from the freeways and so forth and yeah so we were never
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able to park our cars and so forth in the street and
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biz was stuck and so i was politely just helping them jump the car to get out of here and no yeah,
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yeah yes yes correct he was helping to plug the tire.
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Did you use your tesla to jump start someone's car and can you do that i own
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two cars i used my SUV to jump that one. Okay.
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But can you use a Tesla to jumpstart someone's car or no?
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I don't think so. You probably can, but I would just use the excuse,
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sorry, I got a Tesla and just leave. I'd be that guy. Yeah, true. I guess the whole...
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You know the whole car is the battery not just yeah it's a little yeah yeah okay moving on that's.
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Sorry i wish it was more eventful i was just trying to be a good samaritan that
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was it that was it tough man good stuff we're talking about we're catching up
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with uh doug's journey so far we've got the,
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the new pearly whites you know there's options to put you know i think you can
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get like diamonds and gold and these days and in uh,
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new dentures right that's is that an option you know live the vegas yeah that's
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the way i'm going man that's the look i'm gonna be rocking what's that gold
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fronts yeah that would be interesting,
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you know after listening after listening to you guys with bizarro last week which was,
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maybe one of my favorite episodes in a long that was so great,
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you know he's talking about how you should have some kind of unique identifier
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in your costuming yeah he actually mentioned the guy i did the vlog on adam
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london we could talk about adam for a in it if you want yeah absolutely by the way nick that is,
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horrifyingly funny that's what i looked like a month ago,
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a gold bling for those watching live.
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Wow but yeah if you were to get a grill that would be a pretty unique identifier
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absolutely oh my why how did that even become a thing what,
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yeah why do you even have that what do i have these oh you've it's because,
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javi benitez does an amazing bit with false teeth that he teaches in his lectures
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and and so i i went and bought a bunch of them to do this bit that he does it's kind of like a,
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so it's kind of like like you know like a sponge balls for mouth and you just
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keep producing sponge balls same kind of thing but every time you take out false teeth you're like.
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Huh wow and so you just you just keep putting in fake ones as you,
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Yeah, it's a great fit. And it's hilarious. And especially when like at the
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end of an event, you'd be like, oh, we're taking a photo. Hang on a second.
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Let's take a photo. I can gather around.
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And then I'll just sneak this one of those out of my pocket and put it in my
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mouth and just like have gross teeth in the photo sometimes.
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Like it's, yeah, just to get the laugh. Okay. That's new.
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That's unique. As Bizarro would say. Yeah. So you went and saw Adam London.
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That's the correct name, right? Adam London.
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Yeah. Adam London. He does a show at the Ahern Theater here in Las Vegas.
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I was looking for a website that has his ducks because he's got a running theme of rubber duckies.
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We were talking about Adam before the show and having something and even this
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rubber duck thing, which is not like a big,
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running bit through the show, but I think it allows the consumer something to
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kind of grasp on and relate to and then kind of connect with when they're in the showroom.
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There is a childlike thing about it as well, because there's obviously like
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Bert and Ernie singing rubber ducky stuff as well.
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Like there is, there's a level of nostalgia that could be associated with that.
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And I wonder if that still continues with the current generation,
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if they're still like absorbing that, you know, age appropriate material,
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even though it was some years ago.
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Yeah. So Adam London, let me tell you a few things I didn't mention on the blog,
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which I absolutely should have. He's been a working professional in this town
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for like 10 years. I think he started working with Matt King back in the day,
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and he's had his own show in a number of showrooms.
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You're seeing him here at the Orleans.
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You'll see the rubber ducks in his name, in his logo. It's on his tie.
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It opens the show. It closes the show.
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And it's a funny show. It's a funny show and a great room.
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You know, we're currently reading Prism by Max Maven in our little book club on the Discord.
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And in the blue book, there is a really cool trick about this,
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like having a rubber duck that has like a scroll in its mouth,
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like a piece of paper. And in the action of like, so it's basically like an
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open prediction type thing where it's in its mouth the whole time.
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And it's an actual switching device, which is a really good bit of kit.
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And I wonder if he thought to use that. It's in the blue book of the Prism series.
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It's very good, very good trick. Yeah, I really like it.
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His final effect of the show is kind of like that.
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I don't want to say it because i don't want to ruin one moment for anyone.
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He's got an interesting vibe because he looks like just a straight up corporate
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worker but he's doing a vegas show which is very like he looks like you know pretty straight so,
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so here's i think that's the reality of the situation is this the ahern is a
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property that's an off strip so it's a challenging spot to work,
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and this is where a guy who's pretty good but maybe not like you know shin them
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matt franco good that can take a swing at a nice showroom and a matinee you
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know this is his slot four o'clock in the afternoon and
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i would assume he's been doing it for 10 years earning a living doing this show and some,
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tie-in work goes along with it like maybe he maybe books a birthday party in that space for example,
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What a dream to have your own spot like that, for sure. Yeah,
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and one of the reasons I went is to see that kind of vibe, too,
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as well, because I am interested in putting my,
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feelers out on small theaters in this town and seeing what guys are doing in
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spaces that are less than ideal or maybe rooms that have potential but aren't
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being met to their fullest.
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Not like I'm scoping your room, Adam London.
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It's not that. I'm just, I want to know what guys are doing,
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because I've seen some of the bigger shows in this town, but I haven't seen
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some of the smaller ones. So, yeah, I saw one of the smaller ones last Friday.
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Yeah, and like what Bizarro said on last week's episode, how he seems to think
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that the smaller-scale venues are going to survive and they're going to be fine
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with all these difficult times that everyone's going through right now.
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For Magic, for sure. I think that's just the way it is.
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The days of the big shows, they'll exist, I guess, in a few spots,
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but shows are starting to close in Las Vegas.
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They just closed the Cirque du Soleil Mad Apple, which is a really big variety
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show. Nick DeFott had this slot. They always hosted magicians there.
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And that's an example of a big show going away.
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Awakenings, which hosts Airlift Tempo. He plays Fire Chill.
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He's an amazing magician, does some wonderful flow magic. And that shows that
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the wind, it's closing after five years.
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I haven't seen that show. Reportedly, it's not that great, but it's quite a
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spectacle in a very big venue.
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You so doug is to fabricate your dream show at vegas like you're you're like
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the home of doug like what what would you like tell us let's put it out to the
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universe what would you envisage like,
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do you do you see yourself in a sort of beautifully tiered 50 seat yeah you
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know my mind immediately goes when i think of it it goes to ricky jay and his
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52 assistants where you know,
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50 max tiers tiered seating would be great when i think about doing a show i
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think i'd be happy if I'd get 30 people in a room on a regular basis here and.
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Here's like the ideal, I think, guy doing it, Kent Axel, doing the ghost story
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show at the Mandalay Bay.
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He does essentially a close-up magic show with the psychic ghost theme.
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And there's couches, there's cocktail seating. It's very intimate.
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It's like, you know, not much bigger than the room I'm in now.
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And I've seen him crush it because he's a crusher.
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We need to have him on here for a chat, for sure.
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He's a killer question for you both like when it comes to like the room,
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you know the majority of rooms that are sort of being here in oz are effectively you know,
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what's the best way to word it kind of like just you know a corporate meeting
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room that's been converted into and you know you got to bring in some vibe and
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and decorate it and and theme it up,
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how important do you think the the vibe of the room is and the reason i bring
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that up is that when you when you go to something like,
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times that i've seen like chris angel's venue it's pretty muzzed up like it's
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pretty full-on i would say the same for like pen and teller as well like their room is very well,
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lined up with couches and whatever else it's got like a sick vibe yeah copperfield's
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room by comparison is actually like very dark i mean used to be you know it
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was a very it was a blackout theater in a sense,
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you know and i think if you look at matt franco's he's just nicely done with
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very nice hanging lights that really create a different space and give a different
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energy how How important do you guys think,
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the decor of a room slash theater for an event is?
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Norbido, speak on this. You're in the Theater of Magic. You've been in a few
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of those joints. What's the deal?
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Yeah, I mean, I think the framing or the lens that people watch the show in,
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like, yeah, makes such a big difference.
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Even though, like, the Theater of Magic is in a hotel meeting room,
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it still is a nice hotel that people are coming into, as opposed to,
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like, a little dingy cafe like i think the quality of the place they're coming
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to plays a part in it and then obviously yeah i mean,
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the the magic shows that have been existing for a long time normally you can
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tell they put like tons of work into the actual look of the stage and,
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like matt hollywood is a good example on the gold coast he you walk into his
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showroom and it's just like there's massive props that aren't even in the show
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but are there to as like a spectacle and like,
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i think it plays a big part and when i went to see steve cohen's show for the
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first time and i was blown away.
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He doesn't have anything fancy that he's put in the show himself like it's just
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in the hotel but because the hotel itself has so much artwork and history.
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In itself makes it feel is he is he performing in a suite in a hotel is that
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correct correct yeah like the
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story goes that he used to just hire out this suite and put on the show,
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this executive suite and until the hotel like started to,
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work with him and figure out a deal but yeah just straight up would just hire out this this room.
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Absolutely have you guys ever performed in that nature like i did a show a little
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while ago for someone who was kind of a big deal i didn't know she was obviously
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because i have zero fashion sense but she was a very big deal in the fashion
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realm and she employed me to come up to a suite,
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at our crown casino here and,
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it was quite a journey like as you walk in they have their own little private,
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elevators that go directly into the room like you see in the movies where it's
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like the elevator doors open and you're already in the apartment slash suite slash,
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home but what was remarkable about it is like as you go this secret door to
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the left to get to that room there was a businessman made of money but it wasn't
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like money it was like the the metal plates that you used to press money,
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like the actual like hundred dollar bills the u.s dollar bills like it was that
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metal press they used to print the the bills and it was just a guy made of that
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like a guy just made of money and then you go through the elevator and up and
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chandeliers and the whole thing we're talking like
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you know 20 foot ceilings and stuff like that as you go into this type of place
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it's very very fancy it'd probably be a 10 million dollar apartment slash you know,
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these are the gigs i'm looking to book in vegas now that i can smile bigger yeah.
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I feel like i want to work those rooms that's exactly where that's exactly where
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those gigs happen right is in vegas yeah and i'm here for that with the right
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and you know what i'm pretty good at what i do so if these hotels want to put
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some good talent in their clients hotels i'm available,
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yeah i feel like it would be getting in with the concierges and the people that
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look after the rich people that come in town yeah,
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right it'd be like those contacts,
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That's the thing about Vegas is there's freaking 800 magicians here trying to
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get the work. So I don't know. I don't even know where to start.
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But how many of them have a massive YouTube channel?
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Yeah, that's the thing. I'm not worried about anyone else here.
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I figure people don't want to hire me, you will hire me.
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I'm not looking to compete with the other magicians that are here.
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I want the client to find me because they want me, not because they're looking for a magician.
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Yeah, there's a big difference between saying I would like a magician versus
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I would like Doug. Like, that's, you know, you said this for years on the podcast,
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you know, there's a big difference between saying that, you know? Yeah.
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I'm much more interested in doing theater shows than doing gigs.
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Let me be clear about that. I'm ready to do gigs, but I've done enough of them.
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I'm not thrilled about doing more of them unless they pay me well.
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And then I'll be thrilled.
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And, you know, I'd rather make $100 in a theater where people are there to see me.
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Than to make $1,000 when I have to stroll around, you know, the Pepsi convention
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with Rockin' Doopsy playing Zydeco music at volume 10.
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Yeah. So that's where I'm at right now.
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Yeah. And these humble beginnings are quite interesting. You know,
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I'm still staggered by like Bizarro's progression where they were performing
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in like effectively a pizza shop, you know, compared to like how he's evolved
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into the venues that he's performing in now. Like these things do take time, you know?
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Especially if you have a vision and it's a little bit niche which bizarro is
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you know beautiful but it's like when you try to get mainstream work with that
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kind of niche magic you got to be willing to stick to your guns for a little bit.
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What thoughts do you have this sort of you feel would set you apart from other
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sort of small scale theater shows,
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in there yeah you know i kind of have a vision for my show you know i think
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in short that i just give life life lessons while i do magic so my audience
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gets to come listen to grandpa magic talk about,
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the things i've learned in a lifetime of doing it,
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and kick kick your butt with some amazing magic along the way left lots of laughs
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lots of heartfelt moments you'll all leave with a little bit of wisdom,
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and i'll back it all up with some killer social media so i have a point of view
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i think i got enough enough good tricks in a and Levecum shouldn't have a shot at this.
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That's interesting. Sounds like a matter of time now. Yeah, it's the teeth.
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It's going to be the holdup. It's going to be three months before that's done.
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And that's enough time to get all the I's dotted, the T's crossed.
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I'm actively working. That's one of three or four major projects I'm working on right now.
25:06
Okay, I like it. Now, is the 3D printing one of these projects?
25:11
I've stumbled into this. You know, I had one dumb idea to 3D print,
25:15
and I was going to go to someone and have them make this thing for me.
25:18
And I said, you know, it's just a stick. I can make this myself.
25:22
And I had a few bucks and time to kill, so I bought a 3D printer.
25:27
And I've heard... I freaking love it. I've heard that.
25:32
The chat GPTs and stuff just got a new upgrade where they can now design you a 3D printable thing.
25:40
That's my starting point for most ideas. So I'll give you an example.
25:43
I'll show you the idea I had in mind. It's this guy right here.
25:46
I thought a hot rod should be a rainbow.
25:50
So this is a rainbow paddle. It's a total prototype, and I've gone on to other
25:53
things because I don't like kind of where this one is.
25:57
So now this will also come out of a pot of gold. So this is produced from a
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pot of gold, and then you do the hot rod routine.
26:05
Anyway, I just wanted to make this for myself, so that's where it started, you know?
26:09
Wow. And ChatGPT designed this for me. I said, hey, I want to— I had the stickers
26:14
in my drawer, so I said design it with quarter-inch recessed spots for the stickers.
26:18
I wanted this size from a pocket and this is the second prototype and one of
26:23
the first prints i ever did so,
26:26
that's so that's literally breaking down a barrier which was always an issue
26:30
with 3d printing was you had to learn the software or have know someone that could use it right,
26:36
and now yeah and you should you should do that and i'm learning to do that because
26:40
things problems happen and you have to make adjustments and you should be able
26:43
to do that but yeah when you have complex vision being able to manifest it into existence,
26:49
especially as a noob you know when you're starting out with this kind of tech is just uh.
26:54
Such a big a big deal like i saw your your thumbtip holder and i thought that's
27:00
such a clever idea which i've never thought of,
27:03
yeah and that's so i am excited about bringing yeah like some of this stuff
27:08
this is the thumb tip holder if you're watching. Where am I? Over here.
27:12
So this is designed to clip into your belt, and its main purpose really is to
27:16
keep the thumb tip oriented correctly, you know, so if you're doing a bill switch
27:20
or something of that nature, it's always going to be ready. Thumb goes in, it's ready to go.
27:26
This is another good example. I said I need a design with a Vernet size tip.
27:31
It knew what Vernet sizing was.
27:33
The first one it made short, I said make the tooth a little longer.
27:36
And this was a little high. This is version three.
27:41
You can make an index with those and just like take any denomination now,
27:44
you know, like that's sick.
27:46
Yeah. Today, the print on my thing, which actually messed up because things
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aren't perfect right now.
27:51
I'm working on like a credit card wallet that dispenses packet tricks.
27:55
So it's like one of those, you know, thumb slot wallets, but it just,
27:59
so it's a hard case packet trick holder with different slots for three,
28:03
three packet tricks is where I started. So I'm a packet trick nerd.
28:08
I love that so like the thumbtip holder for example how how many hours does that take to print,
28:14
i had a few people ask for these i like greg leeson wanted a couple so i printed
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these three in 45 minutes i think oh that's super quick,
28:24
some of them take take a while you know i've had some complex ones that take hours hmm.
28:31
Here's a fun idea I had. I'll throw this out there. This is kind of a secret
28:35
idea that I think is kind of clever.
28:37
So this is a paddle that I paused the printing in the middle of and embedded
28:42
magnets into the paddle.
28:44
Wow. So it's not designed to have magnets stick to it, but to have whatever
28:47
you want stick to the paddle.
28:49
Right? So it could be, say, example,
28:51
a round sticker or even any magnetic object that would stick to it.
28:56
Maybe it's hiding something under the paddle, and maybe it can be moved from paddle to paddle.
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So, you know, this is an example of some creative thinking I've had moving forward
29:05
with, uh, Yeah, that could be, that could be an image, which would be great.
29:08
You know, something that you can transfer from place to place,
29:10
you know, you can palm it off and just, you know, what I want,
29:12
you know, what the first thing I had in mind is the bird.
29:15
I said, I do a paddle trick and say, some people don't like paddle tricks.
29:19
This one's for you. And then the bird shows up.
29:23
I remember I wrote a routine that was based off the ball and vase,
29:27
but then what happens is like, you remove the ball and it's this.
29:31
Like, you know, it's like getting flipped the bird. I had this whole routine
29:34
made up for it. And I was like, this could be great. And then I had someone,
29:39
design it for me, but yeah, but never deliver on it. So, you know,
29:42
standard magic friend energy.
29:46
I figure anything with the bird or the wiener. I got a couple of wiener projects I'm working on.
29:52
Let's talk about wiener magic for a second, okay?
29:58
Let me tell you. After working in the magic shop, I sold one too many sponge
30:03
dogs. We kept them in the back.
30:05
People had to come in asking for them. I'm like, yeah, we got them in the back.
30:09
Let's do some highbrow magic right now and talk about wiener magic.
30:12
Obviously popularized by the amazing, what is Randy Marsh of South Park.
30:17
What about Hanson Chen's hardest rubber band trick? That's actually a good one.
30:22
That's a good one where I make, yes. Yeah, yeah.
30:25
Norbido, you ever bang that out in your set? The hardest rubber band trick?
30:31
No, I can't bring myself to do. You haven't seen the light for, I can't say wiener yet.
30:41
I haven't pronounced the wiener sound enough, but I'm working out on today's podcast.
30:47
You haven't had to say wiener with the new dentures.
30:52
Wow. Wow. No, you know, back in the day, I remember learning sponge balls and
30:59
stuff. And like one friend had a sponge dong.
31:03
And this is before social media made it popular for every bloody person to have one.
31:08
But even back then i was like this doesn't feel right to produce that in someone's
31:13
hands but uh yeah i've just kind of stuck with that,
31:16
i don't hate it for a girl doing a bachelor party like,
31:21
this is where this is acceptable in my world really i mean you know a few times
31:27
i've done a thing where like i'll i'll,
31:29
steal off like a knife like a butter knife off someone's table and then get
31:32
their napkin and then i'll like i'll lay this down on their lap like lay the
31:36
napkin down on their lap but then what i do is i sneak the,
31:40
butter knife underneath better put it over their wiener so it's like oh and
31:44
then his wiener flies away like it's uh,
31:47
i have done at least that has some like artistic presentation to it yeah i'm
31:52
a classy guy yeah i mean yeah i'm talking about not doing penis magic but i
31:57
did for a while love doing the cards across,
32:00
scott alexander's cards across superfly i think it was called oh yeah,
32:04
yeah where yeah you're making the guy on stage get a boner and the boner flies
32:08
across to the other guy's pants yeah that was great oh here we go from doug
32:13
okay it's my bird it's my bird trick there he is jack the bird hey yeah.
32:21
All right that's the bird trick okay,
32:26
So in Brisbane, we just had river fire, which is like fireworks and airplane
32:32
display from the Air Force and everyone gathers into the city to, you know, watch it all.
32:39
And it was a very strange scenario where every magician was booked out.
32:44
Every magician in the city was booked out for gigs. Like not a single guy was
32:49
still available to the point where even Nick came to the rescue and flew here
32:54
to perform at the Theatre of Magic in Toowoomba. Let's go.
32:58
It was amazing. At the best time, by the way. And yeah, I wish I was there. And...
33:05
I was getting calls for magicians and literally I couldn't give them anyone.
33:10
So we ended up flying over our friends and friend of the pod,
33:15
Brennan Dooley from New Zealand to even come and do a gig over here as well.
33:19
And like, so I got to spend a night hanging out with our bro, Brennan Dooley.
33:26
And one of the gigs that I did, you know, it's funny, Doug, you're just talking
33:30
about hens nights and stuff.
33:32
Imagine this. So I walk in, this gig is for a social club called the Women Social Club.
33:38
So it's for women, they're usually age from 20 to 30, who just want a club to
33:44
sort of network with each other and like-minded people.
33:48
So I walk in and it's 350 women in a stand-up cocktail event.
33:55
And I'm there to do two hours of roving magic.
33:59
And it's essentially a nightclub vibe. And I'm still recovering.
34:09
It's a lot, right? All women? Yeah. Must be doubly hard when you're so sexy.
34:18
I was only one of three males that were allowed in the venue, like at all.
34:25
Yeah. I mean, there's definitely a market for women watching magic because they all
34:31
loved it and freaked out at the magic and you know really appreciated it but
34:36
like i couldn't i'm gonna suggest your success ratio might be better if you're
34:40
built like josh norbido true that
34:43
no honestly like or nick k with all due respect nick.
34:47
The rest of us have to just be charming if you like potatoes with beards then
34:52
i'm your guy if you're a big fan of potatoes i'm your guy because that's exactly
34:56
what i look like listeners of the pod,
34:58
If you like ice cream and cake, I'm your guy. Yeah. I don't know if I told you
35:02
guys, I was at Magic Live and we're in line for the men's room.
35:06
And we're talking about the lecture we just walked out of. I was talking to
35:08
Eric and we're talking, whatever.
35:10
And then this guy turns back and he's like, are you Nick K?
35:15
And I'm like, yeah, because I have my tag on. It's like, man,
35:18
I didn't know it was you. I was just sitting here. And I'm like,
35:22
I know that voice. And then he turns around and he realizes that's like Nick K from the Magic Guys.
35:28
But he'd never actually seen our face he just listens to it just straight up so it's a funny thing,
35:32
it's a funny thing but yeah there's a level of exhaustion that's i think we're
35:36
all been victim of this week if i could speak to it for a moment so my day started
35:40
off with with flying out saturday morning being up at 4 a.m,
35:44
to get to the airport like by 5 30,
35:47
catch a flight get in the car drive you know two hours to towoomba do two shows
35:53
drive back got back to brisbane at like 1 30 a.m slept four hours,
35:58
and then went back to the airport came back to melbourne on the sunday celebrated
36:03
father's day did all your shtick like it was it was so fun and it was so like,
36:09
like you know what it's like we're in vegas you don't sleep when you're in vegas
36:12
because you're having too much fun same sort of thing man but then come yesterday
36:16
it was like i'm going to rehab and it was just like i took like three naps,
36:21
throughout the day and i went to bed at like nine o'clock, like it was just,
36:24
you needed to rest after doing that, you know, because everything adds up.
36:30
And if you work out on top of that as well, like your buddy needs time to repair
36:33
too. Like that's the real work.
36:36
That road warrior shit is not easy, man. 4am let's go to the airport,
36:41
you know? And then six hours later, slap a smile on like you're fresh as a daisy.
36:46
Hmm. You couldn't do it if you weren't love it. If you didn't love the game,
36:50
you couldn't do it straight up.
36:52
Like if you was someone who hated your job, like if your job was to like,
36:56
I don't know, deal with screaming kids all day in like a childcare center or
36:59
something like that. And like, that wasn't your jam. It wasn't your passion.
37:02
This would be the death of you, dude. Honestly, it's what kept me away from
37:05
corporate work. Like I had a chance when I was younger to be the guy flying
37:08
around doing all the conventions and trade shows and working those floors.
37:11
And I'm like, you know what? I'm not that guy.
37:13
I can't work that hard. This is not what I'm here for. You know, it's grueling. Yeah.
37:19
It's really interesting how some people live for that stuff.
37:21
Like people like myself, I mean, I love the game.
37:24
I love the roving game. I love doing corporates. I love meetings.
37:27
I mean, you love being, you love to travel. you love being at the airport port
37:31
for you know six hours to do a one hour gig i mean there's something about like,
37:37
you feel a little bit important that they'd fly you all the way there like you
37:41
to well they're paying for it too so that counts yeah,
37:45
yeah you get off the plane they're holding up a sign that says nick k and they
37:48
put you in a mercedes and they drive you out to the gig like it's kind of cool man it is cool you know.
37:56
Yeah. And then, and then, you know, sometimes politely, you know,
37:58
we're, we're lucky enough here in Oz to, to have a really good network of friendship,
38:03
you know, through all the conventions that we've done.
38:05
Like I've lectured at conventions and so forth. So I have a myriad of friends
38:08
and listeners of the pod. Like, it's so great to have friends everywhere you
38:11
go. Like it's such a blessing.
38:13
And so when you do pop in this summer, you'll be like, yo, you know,
38:17
you want to stay like Adam Axford was staying here last week on Thursday.
38:20
He'll be back again this Thursday doing events in Melbourne and he stays with
38:24
me and we rock out like it's dope.
38:26
So yeah, you're right. I'm completely forgetting about that,
38:29
that the, the beauty of being able to meet up with our other friends in other
38:33
cities, that is definitely a big, big, I mean, that's why I wanted to get Brett
38:38
and Dooley over here because I was like, great.
38:40
That means we can hang out for the night. And we tried to tee it up to,
38:44
to hang out with Nick too, but he was just.
38:47
My flight was an hour. It was a little later than. He had tires to fix.
38:54
And basically what i did was i i spent most of the night just convincing brennan
38:59
dooley why he should sign up for ben earl's studio 52 the family you're loving
39:05
that you're still loving that,
39:07
i'm still loving it yeah and and he did by the way i did convert him he did sign up,
39:13
what to what to i got him to he signed up to the to the family yeah,
39:20
man yeah maybe i should go that way i feel like i haven't been,
39:23
enjoying reading as much as i have been because my eyesight shit lately so i've
39:28
been looking for some video resources i respect ben earl completely i think
39:32
he's one of the best teachers of magic on the planet one of the deepest thinkers,
39:37
i should give some money i've never experienced someone put so much,
39:42
production value into their videos for teaching like i've never seen this before,
39:48
here we are a few years in that resource is probably deep like bots lots to look at right,
39:55
yeah over 500 videos oh geez,
39:59
it's like too much almost yeah,
40:02
it's really like a a library now like you'd go in and you're like oh i want
40:06
to work on my whatever bottom deal you type that in and bang now you see all
40:12
the resources that he's put out for that oh man yum yum yeah.
40:18
Yeah but yeah he has a trick a routine in in the family which people listening
40:23
to this will know called the memento and that's the one that convinced Dooley to jump on board because,
40:30
man this routine is like you have them sign a card on the front and the back,
40:38
and you make this card vanish and like,
40:42
You can track it obviously face up and face down because they've written their
40:45
name along here. And so you're making it vanish from the spread of cards, appear.
40:51
Ben also shared, this is the routine where he shares his work on the card to
40:56
mouth, where it looks like the card just appears visually.
40:59
Like at all at one, in one moment, it just pops into view rather than it already
41:04
being there and people slowly notice.
41:07
He's figured out how to one up that. And then at the end, you take their card
41:11
and you shake this and you're like, Like, look, you know, my name's Ben,
41:14
so I want to give this to you as a souvenir. And their name that they wrote
41:17
on here in the beginning now changes to your name.
41:20
And they keep it as a memento and crazy stuff. Okay.
41:26
Yeah. Anyway, the family. And if you use code Josh25, you get $10 off.
41:35
We should reach out to him. It'd be great. Yeah, get Ben Earl on here. Yeah.
41:39
I think the reason why I haven't is I'm just scared of him. you know,
41:43
not doing it, but I, but yes, I, I, we should obviously reach out and that would
41:48
be awesome. Yeah. Tell them there's like 10 people left. You don't know about, you know?
41:53
Yeah. There's 10 people that, that I've like, I just need you to convince them
41:56
to get them over the edge. I've done all the work I can. Yeah.
42:01
Yeah. I mean, there's so many reasons out there nowadays, you know,
42:04
like I'm, I'm, you know, if I could speak to that, I'm also really enjoying
42:07
Joe barry's no dubs teachings where he teaches two two things a month i think
42:12
for the money it's fantastic and i'm the stuff that he's been teaching is,
42:17
literally just jump straight into my work in repertoire so there's definitely
42:20
like good reasons resources for this but i think that like there's not one person
42:25
who hasn't spoken like he's spoken ill of burial like it's just it's like it's impossible to do,
42:29
you know the way i like thinking is and uh yeah what do you like about it.
42:34
No, I was just going to say in general, I like this thing that, that,
42:39
Now it's not obvious where to go and learn magic again. Like everyone's hearing
42:43
about this place to go learn or from Joe Barry, like you said,
42:47
and like how people are doing their own subscription.
42:50
Or you could even do this. You could book a lesson with one of the magic guys,
42:54
which someone did. Let me thank Jeff Creelan for that. And he enjoyed it enough
42:58
to have a follow-up lesson. So double thanks to that.
43:02
And that's another way that you can learn from guys like, you know,
43:05
us magic guys show.com. Where is that link?
43:09
That's right. Yeah. The magic guys show.com. I did one with a guy named Tyler
43:13
Morrow a few weeks ago. Nice. That's very cool.
43:18
Yes, that is a thing that, uh, it's funny. I don't promote it a lot,
43:22
but it is there for those who find it.
43:23
We don't promote anything. We're horrible about promoting our own stuff.
43:27
Like we regularly mention anything that could make us money or anything. We're just stuff.
43:33
You know, leave a review for the damn podcast. We never say that. Right?
43:37
Yeah, true. I think the last one that was left was five years ago.
43:41
Yeah. Guys, leave a fucking review.
43:48
Five years ago was it me i left a review,
43:52
did you okay you can look at that when you guys started i'm like let me hook
43:57
these guys up i like that might have been me five years ago
44:01
ah that's so funny well no it's because we got to make it a habit to wrap up
44:05
the show like i mean last week i was like thank you for listening scope out
44:08
our website we have merchandise,
44:10
like that's a standard protocol you know what i mean but we just don't we just
44:12
go thanks for listening yeah and i mean.
44:17
Yeah it didn't i mean it's in the notes of every episode and also it's usually popped up as,
44:23
our shop underneath the video on youtube so you know it's definitely there i mean we just don't,
44:30
obviously send we you know we make tens of dollars from our merch yeah it's
44:34
not even needle moving more for the fans who just want to have it i guess right more than anything,
44:41
that's right if they want to have a piece of the show. Yeah.
44:44
That's what it's there for. Yeah.
44:46
We do. Yeah. So someone asked, do we still sell t-shirts? Of course.
44:50
And I was talking with Nick last week, there is some stuff in the works for
44:55
a very cool idea for the next, the next shirt that we bring out.
45:01
Stay tuned for that but the idea being that that one of us would help design it and so working on that,
45:09
just for fun you know cool yeah i think i think what we try to do is we just
45:12
focus so much on trying to give you good episodes and bring really great interviews
45:16
write things with some contacts and yeah and i was half thinking that we might
45:20
even need to do a separate,
45:22
room i guess you'd call it in the discord where we just keep our resources in
45:25
there because i've shared,
45:28
like lecture notes on how to write shows and whatever else i think eventually
45:31
over time everything gets lost but it might just like keep on called resources
45:34
where you know we put bizarro's lecture notes from last week we could put those
45:38
in there and a bunch of others and,
45:39
you know have those things that encourage you guys as well that's one thing
45:43
we're so focused on seldom do we focus on filling our pockets but we kind of should.
45:49
Yeah look i mean if everyone could just send,
45:53
a thousand dollars each we should do like a pledge drive once a year where we
45:58
can at least pay for the web hosting and you know yeah true or you were paying
46:03
dylan there's there's expenses here that i don't know we don't make money,
46:08
yeah josh josh covers most of that shit right gosh yeah everything's just a problem it's awesome,
46:13
yeah i've i you know since yeah since the beginning i've just covered all the
46:17
costs because it's just such a fun thing to do you know the last thing we want
46:21
to do is make it about, oh, have you paid for this, this month? And have you done this?
46:27
Yeah, it's just, you know, it's not really, you know, just write it off on text.
46:31
But I do have to say a big thank you to, because we do have two YouTube supporters
46:36
helping fund some of this stuff.
46:39
So, oh, my phone is ringing. We have that now on YouTube? We have like a membership
46:44
deal or something? Yes. Like, I don't even know.
46:47
We never talk about stuff like that ever. Talk about it.
46:51
That's so true. And that's so funny. Yeah. yeah because we have a structuring,
46:56
management meeting between the three of us to figure out how things go,
47:01
here's the commercial hey hey hey listeners do you have a lot of money do you
47:04
listen to the magic guys give us some of your money support the channel and
47:08
join the membership thank you,
47:10
yeah so a big shout out to southpaw magic and our friend ian brown the both of them,
47:17
yeah have been supporting now for a month or two basically someone in the discord
47:21
said where can i regularly send money to the magic guys which is a unique question,
47:26
and i was like oh we don't have a regular place and then i just made one that
47:30
is it's there if you go to our youtube channel you'll see the join button,
47:35
and it's uh if you did want to do that but you know we never we're not here
47:41
to be anything like that but,
47:43
uh finally someone took a hand this.
47:46
Thank you, David. Shout out to David Rhodes.
47:50
Big supporter of the pod. I don't think anyone's contributed more than him.
47:54
So big love. Big love to David Rhodes.
47:57
He and I will be hanging out tonight on the Discord. We'll be talking while
48:02
working our way through Max Maven's book, Prism. For those who are part of the
48:06
book club, even if you're not part of the book club, jump in. Jump in.
48:09
Come listen. Learn something. We're all friends there.
48:12
That's an amazing volume and a lot to work through. Frickin' Prism.
48:17
Yeah it is wonderful so and roads and i we we did it last week on a monday we
48:23
spoke about it for six hours so,
48:26
it sounds about right yeah that was and that was just the blue book now we're
48:30
doing the red book so by all means get around it so,
48:33
yeah and you know right so look now that the web hosting's covered if we could
48:37
move on to dinner at the golden steer it's about 300 a plate and i need to get
48:42
the reservations going so you remember when we had all that food delivered to
48:46
to trick supply like that was fun that was epic,
48:50
that was funny we have we really do have the best listeners and like yes yeah
48:57
that was we do truly awesome,
48:59
yeah you're muted in the meter.
49:03
Josh is muted. Thank you. Thank you, sirs.
49:06
If any of our listeners own a private jet, we would very much appreciate getting,
49:12
flown to Magic Live from Australia.
49:16
Pick up Doug along the way. Oh, you're already in Vegas. Or come for dinner
49:19
to the Golden Steer. We'll need a little more money on that next donation.
49:24
Okay. Yes.
49:26
So, yeah, that would be great. If we can, you know, because we're just humble
49:29
magicians. So if we can get sponsored to fly in a private jet to Vegas to have
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dinner with Doug, that's all we're asking, you know? And I think we're asking for a lot here.
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If we do, if we do decide to do magic live again, we should do just a like group
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hang of sorts, you know, like anybody, anyone who wants to come and just be like, what's up?
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We're going to talk some crap, you know, we should probably.
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Are you thinking about coming back? Did you enjoy the convention enough to return
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again? I know you've been a few times.
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I have most certainly if i have to speak openly about it was it good yes was
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it better than last year no.
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Last year was better i feel like stan kind of pushes the envelope so it's going
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to be hit and miss i guess you know yeah,
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it wasn't bad it wasn't bad it was just last year was a bit better you know
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like right like there was more things in that that were like really taking blowing
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my mind like the teachings.
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I mean, don't get me wrong, like seeing Danny was amazing.
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It's a pleasure. I've seen him many a times, you know, he, he,
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he did a, you know, a festival here in Melbourne for the Melbourne magic festival,
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of course. And it was brilliant being around him and learning,
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you know, but, and it, and it is, it is wonderful. Don't get me wrong, but.
50:45
Compared to the year before, the year before was like staggeringly good.
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Like it was going to be hard to top and I wasn't expecting this year to be great,
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but there is no such thing as a bad magic live. No such thing. Yeah.
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Absolutely not. You know? So yeah. The camaraderie we had with Eric,
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you know, going around to all the shows and getting our minds blown by Joe Barry,
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like that year, that was a great, that was a great life.
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The only thing that was missing was, was doug being amongst that potty at the
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same time yeah i was a working man hustling yeah and then this year i was actually
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at the orleans on monday and,
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so sick i didn't go downstairs and thank god i didn't because i was sick for two weeks two weeks,
51:27
didn't talk a whole lot about that i was laid up ill like when i was at magic
51:31
live i was there man and just thought if i go downstairs i'm going to infect
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people with whatever i have and i just,
51:40
didn't couldn't do it And good thing I didn't.
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If I've learned anything, it's that next time I go to live, which the plan should
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be next year is to 100% take a human, fuck, I can't even talk.
51:54
Take my humidifier with me because the thing that got me the most was the air quality.
52:00
And just like, I was getting sick by the end of it, just because of that,
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all the smoke in the air and all the pumping of air con and not fresh air.
52:09
I was getting like a red, like a, a wet towel over the air con does help come sleepy time.
52:15
Yeah. That's pretty weird. We could just get a humidifier, but that is a good fix. Yeah.
52:21
I mean, it's a, look, I mean, as opposed to carrying, you know,
52:24
a box that, you know, purifies the air, so to speak, there, there are little
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travel hacks. Let me tell you about living in it for a year and a half.
52:32
Oh my God. I'm so dry. It's unbelievable.
52:35
Yeah. Actually bathed in moisture lotion. And I have a whole tub full of it
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that I soak in three hours a day.
52:41
And, and this year was particularly hot. It was like record breaking.
52:44
Oh my God. It's been insane here.
52:47
115 degrees. Yeah. 115 Fahrenheit. And I was at a pool party with the chain
52:52
smokers, like, you know, rocking out. It was great fun. So yeah.
52:57
And in that heat, dude, like in that heat, by the end of it,
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you're cooked. Like it is.
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Yeah. It was, it was beautiful. Absolutely. You know, the thing that no one
53:04
talks about at, at, in Vegas, that, like really does my head in it is like,
53:11
I have a weird OCD thing with static electricity. Like I fucking hate it.
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And because the air is so dry, everything that's metal in Vegas fucking zaps you.
53:24
Everything, every hotel, every elevator, you push the button to get in every handrail,
53:32
every door to your hotel room all zaps you and the whole time i'm just like
53:37
god damn it god damn it god damn it,
53:41
i just have this funny vision of you going to high five masika and then he just
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zaps you with his electric touch like there's just so much comedy we had there
53:48
well his product would be,
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like null and void there because everything will just zap by itself.
53:56
I had a customer in Trick Supply bitching about that product.
53:59
I wonder if there's an issue with making that thing work in this environment,
54:04
you know, as compared to normal places.
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I was all mad. He bought the rig, whatever, it's electric touch,
54:11
and he had the shoe and got the whole rig and he couldn't get it working. He was mad.
54:19
Yeah, I mean, the environment is so conducive for static anyway.
54:24
I think it might be depending on the person. my wife she shocks everyone everywhere
54:28
i kiss her she shocks my lips but it's that oh like fuck don't tell me that
54:32
i could that's true love doug that's true love that's la passion that's what that is buddy yeah,
54:39
that could be right you might be true on that i love her pretty pretty good,
54:44
you probably do that with your lina,
54:46
apparently i'm going to get sued because i just dissed her you go on the secret
54:50
trick no that was me i did that you can sue me that's fine It's going to be
54:54
laughable when you come for me, though.
54:59
You're going to own me. I've got some nice cameras. You can sell them,
55:01
maybe. Get a few bucks. You're going to own six thumbtip holders.
55:07
My net worth is all in tech at this point. Let me be clear. I've got lots of
55:12
cool shit and no bank account.
55:14
And hats. I saw in your vlog your lineup of hats. I got some hats.
55:18
It's not even all of them.
55:22
Let's talk about your blog. What type of content do you plan on putting out
55:25
with regards to, do you want it to be more educational?
55:28
Do you want it to be like a mixture of A, B, C, and D?
55:31
You know, I'm going to do some tutorials to appease the masses who really want
55:35
this kind of thing from me.
55:36
But moving forward, that's not going to be my main goal, aside from developing
55:40
original ideas and sharing them in my members area. So that,
55:43
you know, if you're one of my YouTube members, if I come up with something neat,
55:46
I'm going to film it and put it there.
55:48
Looking forward to getting that rolling a lot more in the future.
55:51
But yeah, I just want to show all the cool magic stuff in Vegas.
55:54
You know, you are kind of out of the, we talked about it earlier.
55:58
So yeah, there's a million things that are magical in this city.
56:02
I just want to keep sharing them all.
56:04
But what about things like maybe like a guest magician appearing?
56:09
Bro, yeah, like here's one, you know, hey, today we're going to Jeff McBride's
56:14
house. This is where the magic and mystery school happens. Hey,
56:17
Jeff, tell us about this space. That's one, you know.
56:20
I told the wife, like, I'm going to go to the Las Vegas Magic Luncheon on Wednesday,
56:24
and I wanted to stop by the Gambler's General Store before I do that, pick some things up.
56:29
That's an example of two events that are not necessarily a magician thing,
56:34
but, like, content where it's magic-themed in the city.
56:38
And if you're coming to Vegas and you don't know about the Gambler's General
56:41
Store, well, it's kind of cool. Maybe you want to go there. Never heard of that.
56:45
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I'm going to tell you.
56:48
Let's do an episode on it once you go visit it, yeah? Just watch the damn vlog.
56:53
Fine, we'll do that. How about that? Screw this audience. Who cares?
56:56
Fine, that's fine. That's great.
56:58
But yeah, I'm also going to have magicians in here.
57:01
I'm going to go see magicians, and I'll interview some of them at the theaters.
57:07
We talked to Bizarro last week. I asked him if I could do late-night magic and
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interviewed the cast there. He's like, yeah, come on. Stuff like that. Thank you.
57:17
And then before you know it, before you know it, we'll have the Doug Conn retreat in Vegas.
57:23
Look, man, there was a Con Conn that was going to happen at one point.
57:26
And I'd be lying if I hadn't thought about that a couple to six times over the last year.
57:31
And this city is lacking in a good close-up magic convention.
57:37
I think I could throw a banger to fix down the ways.
57:41
Buddy, if you put that on and you bring Patton Gillian,
57:46
and a couple other cats that i can think of,
57:49
like yeah i'd be there in a heartbeat like i'd be like you know who i bring
57:53
is all my busking buddies who are killers and no one knows about them because
57:57
they're just at all their busking so imagine the doug con and friends busking show
58:02
i know some fucking smoking acts that no one knows about,
58:07
you know there's a guy recently that i just over the weekend while i was in
58:10
the plane i was you know doing a bit of doom scrolling and i came across a guy's name is Biz and,
58:17
I don't know if he's, he runs the magic company called the one in the UK that
58:23
everyone puts out German cat who does just like the, he's doing like 365 days
58:28
and he's showing one thing every day and it is my brain mush.
58:33
He is, he's all that in a bag of chips, man. It is unreal. The stuff he's coming
58:38
up with. Original magic, huh?
58:40
Well, you know, it's either like, here's what i learned from this person here's
58:44
what i've been tinkering with it you know okay yeah
58:47
really well thought out he's like if you know you know if you don't go look
58:51
up his work like really respectfully done as well nice,
58:56
i saw this from eric mead i thought it was cool here's my little take in it
59:00
i do it this way i do it that way like he's,
59:02
but the stuff he does i'm like yo turn my brain to mush man and i've i've been
59:07
sharing it with friends of mine who who i consider amazing card guys and i'm
59:11
just like this guy man you know yeah yeah.
59:16
So his handle is names biz he's a his berlin baby it's like his my name is biz
59:23
i create magic like this is the cat i'm talking about on instagram he calls himself,
59:28
names biz names yeah it's so funny that you're you're talking about him now
59:33
because like oh big blind media is who he worked he he runs that uh,
59:39
magic company you know big blind media great company so yeah biz actually had
59:44
me on an episode i'm just looking at when it was this oh this is like a whole
59:49
year ago but yeah we did an episode together,
59:52
talking about magic and like yeah his creativity is just like insane yeah yeah
59:59
like he really he really put some thought into it and and,
1:00:03
even when he displays it as a simple thought like it's just done so eloquently it's beautiful i cannot
1:00:08
so he's he's become one of my my new favorites on the gram i can't not consume
1:00:12
his content it's brilliant so nice recommend you guys scope it out as well as
1:00:17
well as our buddy adam axford who's absolutely crushing it like,
1:00:20
he was here last week and while we were sitting having a cup of tea he clicked over 83 000,
1:00:26
followers like he is just collecting them like pokemon,
1:00:31
yeah he's booming yeah all right let's put a let's put a little bow on this
1:00:35
let's go with the nick you've got a lot of fire words going on here let's go
1:00:38
with the final word from nick i reckon we'll see you guys next week buy some shirts in the link below.
1:00:45
Thank you david next week.
1:00:49
Well as we wrap this up i want to just express some gratitude to everyone who
1:00:52
actually listens to the podcast thank you for listening you're the reason we do it we do it because of,
1:00:57
the love and the knowledge we want to give it's so important to us that we,
1:01:00
leave the magic realm in a positive state and hearing stories about you guys,
1:01:07
listening to our content and doing your first gigs and,
1:01:10
having the pleasure of meeting you guys when we do visit in vegas at magic live
1:01:14
or anywhere else we might be it means the world to us so the final word is a
1:01:18
thank you on behalf of all the magic guys thanks for listening,
1:01:21
keep doing your magic and show some love in the discord we'll do everything
1:01:25
we can to get you guys leveled up in the magic realm. Be good.
1:01:31
Thanks for listening. It's time for us to disappear now.
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But we'll see you again on the next episode of The Magic Guys.