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Puddings & Speakpipes Christmas Special! #248 · 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. Ladies and gentlemen. Or should I say, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Welcome to episode 200 and I didn't put it in the hashtag. Oh my god. 248.
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  248 of the magic guys. I can't believe we're here.
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  I can't believe we're at Christmas almost. That's right. It is a Christmas special. Why?
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  248 means we've almost hit. I wish today was 250 because that would mean it's,
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  you know, exactly five years of podcasting episodes, but we'll get there.
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  And that'll be the first episode of the new year, which is going to be pretty
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  sweet. But guys, next week will be 249.
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  And then the first one of the new year will be 250. 250.
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  Fitty i'm i'm host number one josh norvito to my left we have host number two
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  nick k oh yeah and host number three oh happy holidays everyone dog khan here dog daddy dog khan.
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  We actually made it through another year. Well done, everyone.
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  Well done, every single one in the chat. Who is here live with us to celebrate?
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  And you know where this is going to be a funny one with our puddings,
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  which we promised we're going to eat while we listen to you guys.
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  Look at that. Look at Nick's pudding.
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  You can't see it, but I swear to God, you can hear that pudding on Spotify.
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  Just look at that. Like, even if I had remembered to get pudding,
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  I wouldn't have got anything that looked like what Nick is eating.
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  What did you, what is, what do Australians call pudding?
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  What is that? This is the indulgent salted caramel pudding drizzled with rich,
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  buttery salted caramel sauce.
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  It has a 1.5 health star rating.
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  It's literally diabetes. You're going to double your weight today. Yeah.
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  It definitely takes life eating that. It definitely takes life.
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  I went for the the chocolate pudding variant but the
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  the salted caramel looked so inviting you know
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  yeah and i thought but i was like but i'm not guaranteed to get diabetes if
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  i eat the salted caramel but definitely with the chocolate version so yeah well
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  it's like a bread pudding then it's like a cakey kind of thing huh it's like
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  a yeah it's like a cake and it has.
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  The sauce within it. So when you heat it up, it's like super tender and it's
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  like a half baked cake kind of thing.
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  Like it goes right in like a put, you know, like a pudding, like a pudding. Cause that's what it is.
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  More importantly, the reason we have these is because of your kind,
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  uh, donations, which you gave to us in last week's episode.
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  So thank you to everyone who contributed to that.
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  Yes. That, you know, and the reason I don't have any is because gambling and
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  dispensaries, But thanks for making my holidays happier.
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  But here's what I want to put out to the audience. I can't do it because I'm
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  in Australia, but I think it would be hilarious if someone can Uber eat a pudding
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  to trick supply mid-episode.
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  That would be hilarious. But you know what will show up is like a little thing
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  in a Jell-O sealed horrible thing. Don't waste your money.
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  Let's do this. Send me credits to Caesars.
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  And don't listen to doug all right here's what we want to do let's
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  just send all sorts of food to doug right now um
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  trick supply is that the official address doug
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  yeah we're on google maps you know okay so here's
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  the deal everyone i and i'll paypal you back send him
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  pizza let's send him candies let's send him beer let's send him a pudding just
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  whatever you can send send me the receipt and let's just make sure we we get
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  as festive as we can this is going to be hilarious and Doug has to eat and consume
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  everything that arrives within reason. Sounds horrible.
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  All right, so today's episode, I almost knocked over my entire pudding.
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  We're here for you guys. We want
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  to sit back. We want to reminisce on what you've been doing in the year.
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  I know there's some questions thrown
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  in there as well and we appreciate everyone who sent in a speak pipe.
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  I want to forward for next week too and I want to put a call out.
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  Send in your speak pipe of your goals for 2026. We might go through ours.
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  We want to hear what yours are. So just in advance, I'm just letting you know,
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  I want you guys send in your speak pipes.
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  And let's get on the way for this week. First up, we've got Nick Gay here,
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  fellow speak pipe veteran, has sent in many, has also contributed to the podcast a lot.
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  And I think, Doug, he used to be in your magic group, right?
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  Man, that's a brother from another mother. He stayed on my couch.
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  He was the second one after you broke it in, Nick K.
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  Only people that have the name Nick and the last name that ends with A-Y are allowed.
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  But yeah. Heck yeah. Let's see what Nick's got for us. Here we go.
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  And we can't hear it because. Nick is a mime. I don't know if you knew that.
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  He actually doesn't mime. He's a mime.
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  I know what I just did wrong. Just to be clear, it's a speak pipe where you
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  need to speak. You don't do it through interpretive dance.
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  I know what happened. It's my bad. I turned the volume down.
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  That's what happens when you're distracted by pudding.
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  But in the meantime, shout out to Herbert in the chat, giving us another $10.
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  Thank you, Herbert. But for anyone else, don't send money. Just send Doug food
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  right now live in the stream.
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  That's what I literally just ate lunch like two hours ago and I knew I should
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  have got pudding while I was out picking it up. I am not hungry.
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  Don't send me food. Now you're going to have to deal with whatever turns up. All right, here we go.
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  Round two, Nick Gay, everybody.
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  Hey, gang. So last night was my local Magic Club's Christmas party where everyone did like a little set
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  And it was an event of all time, let me tell you, about half the group.
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  Something would go wrong, and they would just stop their performance.
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  And it just got me thinking, you know, what I would have done in that situation.
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  And has there ever been a point where you guys have just fumbled something so
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  badly that you're just like, you know what, we're just going to stop here and
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  move on to the next thing? Thanks.
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  I wish I was at that Christmas party. That sounds like a drinking game.
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  Like, go to a Magic Club Christmas party and just drink every time you see something
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  that, you know, is clearly the first time it's been done. Yeah. Oh, God.
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  That's why they're there. Yeah. There are some effects out there that there is no escape.
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  There is no get out of jail free card. So, for example, the scariest one in
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  my head is the color match.
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  If that prop in any capacity doesn't work or fails even once, that is it, man.
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  There is no escaping failure.
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  And it's a scary thing. If it's anything that I fail the most,
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  I've got a matching bit with the Rubik's Cube where you make them,
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  they shuffle, you shuffle, and they match.
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  I will screw that up more than I do anything. and
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  it's mainly because i begged the folks who were like doing
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  my lighting please don't put any lights on the stage and then they'll annoyingly
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  be like i just want to put a little red on there to bring out like no no no
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  no if you throw green on me then like the yellow changes color or you know it's
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  like and so you find it really hard to to manage so yes it has happened but thankfully,
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  i have an extra phase of the routine and that's the way i got out of it so like
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  it's either dead and the routine ends there and I just move on with a very anticlimactic
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  finish, which I have dealt with in the past.
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  And I literally just said like, I give up, let's move on.
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  And it's literally how it went and I made a comedic thing out of it.
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  But if it does screw up, I can still have an effect afterwards where I do soul
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  behind the back type thing.
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  So I have been there and I learned from it.
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  And it wasn't until I made the mistake that I was like, okay,
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  how do I make my way out of this from now on?
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  Dude that literally happened to me on saturday like no way we really are the same person yeah.
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  Like it was exactly the same cubes except
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  for the one that the spectator had mixed up if you can see me on video the one
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  that the spectator had mixed up was was turned one extra permutation which is
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  my own fault came out of the bag it was one extra turn so it almost looks the
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  same But like one line is throwing me off.
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  So I came out all like excited. Everyone's like feeling like what the effect's going to be.
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  I'm like, is that the exact same? And she said, yes.
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  Just because at a glance, it does look like it's the same.
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  Doug, tell me that's food arriving for you. Is that what that just was?
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  I believe it's a customer and not food.
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  So let me go do that. I'll be right back with y'all.
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  Okay. As if we could have that quick of a delivery. BRB. Hell yeah.
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  Anyway, it happened to me. But you're right because, yeah, you very quickly,
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  you're like, yeah, anyway, this is not about me. This is about you.
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  And you, whatever, bring it on to them.
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  Yeah. And I also had this happen on Saturday because it was a Christmas version of the Theater of Magic.
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  So I thought I would do a few phases of a road routine, but with tinsel,
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  like a cut and restored tinsel as like the opening of the show where,
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  you know, it's just the host like welcoming everyone.
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  And I thought I would try this little bit. anyway talking
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  about knowing when to like just stop something it turns
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  out tinsel is a little tricky because it's fluffy and even though you cut it
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  it's hard to see the ends because when you cut it it all just turns into one
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  big like bush of tinsel yeah so i did like a few phases and then at one point
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  i'm like i can't see which ends i'm meant to grab and so.
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  Basically like so like you cut the rope right and
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  you meant to let go and like one end is like slightly shorter than the other
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  but basically i just grabbed and hoped and when i let go like one length of
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  rope was like freaking a meter and a half and the other length was like this
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  long because i'd obviously just
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  grabbed the two wrong ends and i just knew there was no point trying to,
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  fluff around and make up with this so you know i just made it when things go
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  wrong just try and make it funny and like make it obvious.
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  So I'm like, anyway, give Michael a big round of applause. And I like stuffed
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  it into his shirt and made a whole thing and moved on.
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  Cause sometimes, yeah, there just is no recovery and that's fine, but.
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  My advice is that if there is things that can screw up, I get it, it will happen, right?
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  Focus on having not multiple outs, but multiple outcomes.
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  Yeah. I think that will get you through those cheeky times.
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  But thank you for sending the speak pipe. We now have like over 10.
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  So let's blaze through the next one. Here we go to Seth.
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  I have a fun little gig story. I was doing a Christmas party last night and
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  a very animated woman was telling me the story about another event she was at
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  that had a magician. And she said she, you know, held up her empty hand and then she closed it.
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  And when she opened her hand, there were three little balls inside her hand
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  and how she lost her mind.
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  And I had three sponge balls in my jacket pocket. So as she was telling the
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  story, I kind of, you know, grabbed them in my hand and I was just sort of holding
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  on to them and waiting for a good opportunity. And she was wearing this big
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  black like faux fur coat.
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  And I was like, oh, ma'am, do you carry those balls with you still?
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  And she's like, what do you mean? And I was like, oh, because there's three
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  balls right here in your hood.
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  And she and her family kind of lost their minds. And it was a very fun part of the evening.
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  I was actually done working at that point, but just doing some magic for folks
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  that didn't get to see me when I was working. And it was the highlight of my night.
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  Cheers. That's good Christmas, Barry.
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  That's good Christmas, Barry. Thinking on your feet is honestly where some of
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  the best miracles come from. Right, Nick?
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  Absolutely, man. When you see opportunities like that, you know,
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  to, to like put something under a watch or anything like that,
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  you know, it's those, that's where the magic is. But yeah, man.
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  And that's, I think it just goes to show that when we, when we sort of jazz
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  these ideas and we look for opportunities that you can make beautiful magic moments.
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  And I applaud you for that. Let's all applaud Seth.
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  I thought you had a button for that. There you go. I do. Yeah, I do. No, no.
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  I'm just starting to get a bit of brain fog from all this pudding.
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  Yeah, I feel diabetes creeping in real quick. By the way, can you guys hear this pudding?
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  Can you hear that? Oh, it's mukbang. That's like going in my belly while we listen to...
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  Yeah. Matthew. Okay. Howdy, y'all.
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  So I just wanted to share my most memorable gig, which was my first nursing home of the year.
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  Actually, my first nursing home at all I'm performing at.
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  And so I was doing balloons. I was doing magic.
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  Almost gave one of them a heart attack while doing the balloons.
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  Different story another time.
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  Probably for the after party. Who knows? Anyways, the most memorable part for
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  me, though, was I was doing the Siberian Chain Escape kind of like as the finale for my show.
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  And I had a volunteer, and she came up to me after the show,
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  this sweet little old lady, and she explained to me that she was 100 years old
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  and that in her 100 years on this earth, she had never seen anything more impressive.
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  And that just made my whole year, honestly. I think this gig was back in June,
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  and that made my whole year.
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  So i don't think i'll ever forget that
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  moment that was amazing and i can't
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  wait to see y'all in the after party good job buddy
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  oh yeah good stuff man those moments
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  are so great like when i do the you know the solution solve behind the back
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  which in which the spectator twists the cue behind their back and solves it
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  i always present it in such a way that if it's someone's birthday or whatever
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  else and you know i'd be like it's my 50th today but like i go you've you know
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  have you ever sold one of these before?
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  They're like, no, I go, I can't have you go through your whole life without
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  having solved one of these.
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  Get up on stage and you're going to solve it in front of all these beautiful
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  people here. And then you celebrate them for solving it behind their back and
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  everyone just goes nuts, man.
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  And then they can live out the rest of their existence knowing they actually
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  did something wonderful.
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  So I think that it is nice when you have that sort of notion, like he said,
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  where it's like she was a hundred and it's one of the best things she's ever
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  seen in a hundred years that is really special that's awesome that's like the
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  old when you think about it the older they get the more impressive of a compliment
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  that is because you know they've like you know she's seen some shit like.
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  You know what I mean yeah wow that's
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  really cool and nursing homes Nick what's your
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  what's your thoughts on nursing home gigs um I
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  haven't done them in a very long time and I have done them in the past
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  I did them I did a lot of stuff for the dementia foundation some while
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  ago and it was great and really really thankful
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  for the opportunities of that I really enjoyed it but
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  I also know that there is a caliber of magician that does do
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  that quite regularly and it was my intention
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  to kind of step away and not sort of encroach on that
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  realm so yeah i think
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  i think it's it feels very rewarding
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  in the in the very few times that i have it's
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  a very rewarding feeling yeah and it's
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  also a great place to just try material and be
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  someone you're not normally and try and be more of a character than yourself
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  because like that you know they're just there to have fun and see what you have
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  to offer and like so there's it's a low pressure environment is what i'm saying
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  and you can really just like make someone's day i guess and show 101 year old.
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  An effect that might give them a heart attack what what was the effect he said he tried to do,
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  the first one a balloon effect swallowing a balloon or popping a balloon i think
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  is what he said yeah maybe avoid that maybe avoid that um yeah so yeah so i
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  imagine nick would go up to them and he'd be like so do you want to see my coin
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  stuff my card stuff your what my award-winning stuff.
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  What's that behind your ear? It's your... Hearing aid. Hearing aid.
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  Oh, no. Oh, no, that's really your hearing aid.
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  You're doing coin work and for some reason a coin sticks to their hearing aid.
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  You're like, that shouldn't be magnetic and you shouldn't see that.
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  I like to go up to the old folks in the wheelchair, then I go down by their
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  tires and then I pretend that I'm letting it down by, like, just with my mouth going.
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  Hey, that's funny. And then I'm like, no, you can't leave my show.
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  You have to stick around.
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  Speaking around scotty p thank you for
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  all your supporters sticking around and thank you for the lovely 10 donation
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  thank you very much buddy right let me give you that
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  and yeah it says here's the money to go
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  towards getting your stomach to get to go towards what towards your stomach
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  pumped boys oh yeah that's gonna be a thing that is i'm halfway i don't think
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  i can get through this is half a kilo i don't know how many pounds that is but
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  yeah this was a terrible idea.
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  Like it's you know it's very fun
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  but oh oh it's great all right okay i got a quick around it before we continue
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  i've got a quick gig story i've got a couple that i've just splashed in i've
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  just made some notes from from the uh the christmas season one effect i love
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  doing is card-to-box, particularly,
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  Ozzy Wynn's card-to-box, where you're,
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  essentially in real time under the complete misdirection
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  of them naming a card and trying to pick
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  it out of the deck you can load it into the box and
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  what i did was load the wrong card into
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  the box okay so at
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  the end of the routine when i'm like holding up the cards going now
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  would it be impressive if the card could jump to the top because
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  it's not one of the first few cards is it and they go oh yeah
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  it is one of the first few cards and i'm like oh
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  that's that shouldn't be there what the hell and
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  then i've realized what i've done i'm like oh no i've loaded a different card
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  the card next to it essentially so i go so what i did on the fly was and i hope
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  i can like recreate this i like get them to pick another i'm like okay so you
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  know where it is so let me shuffle it a little bit let's see if you can grab
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  it again and now I load that card into the box,
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  but now I have a problem because there's another card in there.
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  And I essentially then go and let's create a card with our minds and I equivocate the second card.
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  So now that they've created, because it was a king of diamonds and if you've
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  been doing a lot of magic research, you'll know a court card is quite easy to equivocate.
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  And yeah, so now I'm like, all right, so we've got a named card and a generated
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  card. What if I and make both of the cards fly out of the deck.
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  And land on the box they're like no way anyway that was
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  the strongest reaction i've ever had of two cards appearing inside a
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  box and it was awesome awesome anyway
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  moving on because this is not about me this is about our audience and that's
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  right we're it's a christmas miracle and we're celebrating you guys well yeah
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  i know the crash yeah i think that's going to start happening around the 40
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  minute mark lucky we got a lot of speed pipes to fill up the space the space All right,
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  next one is from a gentleman named Wadi.
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  I think Wadi, I've chatted to him on Instagram. All right, I think he's from
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  maybe the Saudi area. Let's see what Wadi's up to.
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  Hello, guys. My name is Wadi. I'm from Lebanon, based in Dubai.
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  You don't know me in person, but Josh might know me because we have some chats
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  from time to time on Instagram.
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  What I want to say, like every one of you in person, like alone,
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  he's doing a great great great job but now when you do this podcast.
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  It's really, really amazing what you are doing to the magic and the community.
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  Like you are sharing your experience and what happened to you in such events
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  or if something goes wrong.
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  And every advice is really, really amazing and it helps everybody and especially me.
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  Hope we met soon on video call or if you come to Dubai, just let me know. Stay safe, guys.
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  Well, thanks for the kind words, brother man. That's very nice. Thank you. Yeah.
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  Like guys, we, you know, we're like any magician who gets in front of a stage.
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  We have the same ethos with this podcast that you're nothing without an audience.
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  You're really not, you know, you just practice magical you like in your room and that's fine.
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  There's a place for folks like that. But we as magicians, we gift the magic
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  to the folks the same way that we gift our knowledge to you guys.
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  And so that's why we wanted to celebrate you guys with everything that you've
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  learned along the way. So we appreciate the big thanks. Thank you,
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  buddy. Thank you so much. and Dubai.
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  I don't know what I'm passing through there next. Let me think.
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  Not this year How about you? Maybe There are plans to maybe visit some family
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  in Africa And I know Dubai is like the main airport you stop at Like on the
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  way Either Dubai or Singapore All good,
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  Aziz is our next speak pipe Aziz,
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  What are you up to my friend?
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  Hey guys This is my 1001 recording this voice note Sorry Fuck it I'm sending
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  this So my name is Aziz I'm from Saudi Arabia I do close-up magic And I want
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  to ask you like two questions.
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  First, if you can give me some tips on how far can you go in magic,
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  like your knowledge, how you just keep learning, you just keep practicing, how much, how long.
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  You just perfect a few powerful effects and go on from there.
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  That's why I think it's the best.
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  And the second question, I'm doing jamming night with magicians.
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  So we have this event each and every Wednesday in a secret location here in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.
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  You are more than welcome to join us, guys, if you want.
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  So, Magician will come from all of us. I'm trying to keep this a thing that
• 23:04
  happens each and every Wednesday. I don't know how to keep it up as far as can
• 23:07
  possible. It's a free event.
• 23:10
  The place is covered. Everything is covered. Just come and hang with us. Join us. Jam with us.
• 23:15
  How can I keep it entertaining and everyone to participate?
• 23:18
  Because we have very different people between Magicians who are good and Magicians who start learning.
• 23:24
  So this is like big topic but you can give me some tips on it so yeah so thank
• 23:30
  you so much you have a wonderful year thank you so much for inspiring me to
• 23:33
  do this jamming like you guys I had the reason behind everything Leslie Joshua
• 23:37
  thank you so much thank everyone else thank you guys oh.
• 23:42
  How cool is that he must have reached the limit there how cool is that like
• 23:46
  we're inspiring folks to have start their own communities in their own sort
• 23:49
  of countries in local areas that is awesome,
• 23:53
  That's bloody so, that's so cool. And like, I would love to just show up one
• 23:57
  day to that secret hangout jam, you know? Yeah.
• 24:02
  Well, let's, let's focus on the jam question first, before we talk about the
• 24:05
  first question knowledge. So I think that when you have these regular jams on,
• 24:09
  like on Wednesdays is a great time to do it because it's midweek and no one's
• 24:14
  going to have excuses of what, it'll seldom have excuses.
• 24:16
  I have gigs. So I think that's a good idea doing it on that. now
• 24:20
  as far as like what to do in those sessions it's
• 24:22
  like just ask yourself what do you get the most out
• 24:25
  of when you're jamming so there's a few
• 24:28
  things that are three things that came to mind when you were talking the first
• 24:31
  one i wrote down is that like sharing so just sharing whatever knowledge that
• 24:35
  you've been studying anything that you might know and inviting people and encouraging
• 24:40
  people to do the same what have you been learning this week this month so forth
• 24:45
  depending how often and you do it,
• 24:46
  you know, and just go, well, I saw this thing. I don't know how to do it.
• 24:49
  If I don't know if anyone else has done it. And it's the type of thing where
• 24:51
  you go, oh, oh, I do that. Let me help you with that.
• 24:53
  So that's a sense of community. And it encourages people to actually want to
• 24:57
  learn more and encourages people to want to share more.
• 24:59
  Right. So I think that's really important too.
• 25:02
  And even though there are different levels of magicians, in effect,
• 25:07
  that some that perform, and I wouldn't say professional to bad,
• 25:09
  let's just say ones that perform really well and ones that don't perform so well.
• 25:15
  Encouragement to the ones that don't perform so well. Because I think that ones
• 25:19
  that don't perform so well without guidance and tutelage will end up going down
• 25:24
  a path where they will be an okay magician,
• 25:28
  but they will use very brute force methods that don't help the art form.
• 25:33
  I've seen young magicians evolve into adults and the method is just this.
• 25:39
  So for example, I've seen them use like electronics and in the middle of a routine
• 25:42
  he's talking to them and he's doing this on his watch because he's putting in
• 25:45
  a pin code to get you know a peek of sorts and he's going yeah that's really
• 25:48
  cool and so and where you're from and he's literally you know like those sorts of things,
• 25:54
  need to be called out, not called out, but just politely. I have some notes
• 25:59
  if you want them is what I say to my friends when I have feedback for them.
• 26:02
  I think that's important. I think that that is a good basis where you just,
• 26:06
  you share stuff, you share knowledge and you encourage everyone to do the same.
• 26:11
  And the ones that are struggling, you know, you just be encouraging and you show them how to do it.
• 26:16
  And some folks aren't going to take your advice and you, and you know what you
• 26:20
  do at that point, you say to them, like, you are not, you are not listening.
• 26:23
  You are not paying attention.
• 26:25
  Like you are not taking anyone's advice. Like we're here to help you,
• 26:28
  but you're not helping, you know?
• 26:30
  And that's just the sort of thing where if it's about community and it's about
• 26:34
  helping each other and there's no egos aside, there's a place for them.
• 26:37
  Any touches on that, Josh?
• 26:39
  In Brisbane, I've personally not been successful with,
• 26:45
  seeing groups of magicians hang out just purely for jam sessions and I think
• 26:53
  it's something that yeah doesn't need to be kind of fixed and addressed.
• 26:57
  Particularly in Brisbane, like for some reason, our community isn't really,
• 27:02
  it's not really a community, it's more so a group of magicians that will come
• 27:06
  together anytime there's a
• 27:07
  great lecture on and we all friendly with each other and things like that.
• 27:12
  But when I was going up, there used to be a weekly jam at the Hilton Hotel in
• 27:16
  the lobby and it was fantastic.
• 27:18
  But just slowly but surely everyone
• 27:20
  would drop off and I guess because there's nothing in it for them,
• 27:23
  why show up purely for the the fact of everyone jamming
• 27:27
  with one another so same thing with our local magic
• 27:30
  club like me included I just we just eventually would all
• 27:33
  just stop we would just stop but the
• 27:36
  most successful times I've hung out with magicians
• 27:40
  and what I would call a community is when it's because we're all somewhere performing
• 27:45
  like the little community we have at the theater of magic I look forward to
• 27:49
  so much because we're all there and we watch each other and then we laugh about
• 27:53
  it afterwards or we dare each other to try something new,
• 27:57
  that's my favorite type and yeah the best hangouts i have is when i when i get
• 28:01
  to do a gig with a fellow magician at a corporate event or something that's
• 28:05
  like the my favorite times you know or a bloody podcast podcasting is also a great way to.
• 28:13
  You schedule a time every week to hang out with your brother, you know?
• 28:17
  Well, one of the things I do on a weekly basis is every Monday night it's open
• 28:21
  and I have a cohort of friends that I jam with every single week.
• 28:25
  I'll be the first to say it and they'll be the first to admit it as well that
• 28:28
  like they don't commit to magic as much as I do because of the way they are
• 28:33
  and that's fine. But I started it as a book club.
• 28:36
  So I read books because for me, it's like, look, I'm going to read books. Boring.
• 28:41
  No, sorry. Sorry. Yeah. i said i was going to
• 28:43
  read books regardless i'm going to learn magic regardless
• 28:47
  if you want to be a part of it you can read the books
• 28:49
  with me i'm buying them from here come be a
• 28:52
  part of it so we do have a lot of like back and forth like we're
• 28:55
  all trying to get our hands on the conover books but they're impossible to get in australia so
• 28:58
  it's very difficult to to kind of for us all to
• 29:01
  get our hands in that book to read so yeah it's
• 29:04
  yeah but look some people will take magic seriously and some won't and
• 29:07
  my the reason i bring that up is that don't be upset if they don't share the
• 29:11
  same passion as you do okay that's it yeah yeah and oh going out and doing street
• 29:17
  magic with fellow magicians is an awesome way to bond as well and hang out like
• 29:21
  yeah if if you're all if you're a group of magicians that aren't doing magic
• 29:25
  professionally but you want to perform.
• 29:28
  It's so what's the word like motivating if you get a group of like two three
• 29:33
  or four of you to go out and do street magic you you feel like you have so much
• 29:37
  more confidence to approach groups out on the street to perform magic because if they say no,
• 29:43
  they're not saying no to you directly.
• 29:45
  They're saying no to seeing magic from your group. So it's like,
• 29:49
  it's so easy to go up and just fire through performances.
• 29:55
  And you're hanging out, but you're, you're actively like doing something that's
• 29:58
  making all of your magic better. Yeah. Okay.
• 30:02
  So circle back to the first question about like knowledge, how far do you go,
• 30:05
  buddy, as far as you want, you know, I like to study history. I'm a big fan of it.
• 30:11
  I listen to history podcasts and I just, I think I'm just have that mindset.
• 30:15
  You got to know where you came from to know where you're going.
• 30:17
  That's just me, you know? And I think that, you know, when you have that knowledge, it's good.
• 30:23
  And, you know, when you, when you understand something,
• 30:26
  you should be able to teach it and you'll surprise yourself how good you are
• 30:29
  at sharing it with other people, you know, and as far as the club,
• 30:35
  as long as your ethics are in place, as long as people are doing things with respect to you,
• 30:39
  that you're not stealing ideas from each other and things like that,
• 30:42
  that's super important. Yeah. Yeah.
• 30:45
  That's a big part too yeah hanging around magicians and
• 30:48
  not being there just to like clip their their
• 30:51
  work and do it yourself straight away with no original
• 30:54
  additions that's a big problem yeah these days like these days i am obviously
• 31:01
  honing in on the bits that i'm performing but i'm always got my ear to the tarbell
• 31:07
  book you know i'm always like ear to the streets but ear to the magic penguin emails.
• 31:12
  Like, I'm always like, what is out there, you know, that could be sprinkled
• 31:15
  on what I'm doing to be better? Or what should I know about?
• 31:18
  But, yeah, so I would say the answer is both. Like, yes, hone in on the main
• 31:22
  things that are working for you, but always have that 20% of CPU in your brain to look at what's new.
• 31:30
  And, David, thank you for the love, my friend. Five bucks. Yes.
• 31:34
  Thank you. And we've just had word that a pudding has been sent on the way to Mr.
• 31:40
  Doug Collins. And let's see if it makes it to him.
• 31:43
  This is genius. We're going to go into overtime until it gets there.
• 31:46
  I don't care. That's why we do this live.
• 31:49
  Herbert's asking, is there an Australian FB group for magicians that isn't club,
• 31:54
  regional, or seller group?
• 31:56
  Just socializing? There is. No.
• 31:59
  No, no, there is. It's called the Magic Guys Discord, baby.
• 32:04
  That's probably the closest thing. Because the thing is, why would magicians
• 32:10
  be in a group to socialize with each other when it's not to do with gigs?
• 32:17
  And like, I've noticed that just because humans all do magic doesn't mean that
• 32:22
  they all want to socialize with each other because they could all be all sorts
• 32:25
  of separate types of people.
• 32:26
  The magic thing isn't really enough to now
• 32:29
  automatically make you the same people and
• 32:32
  best buddies but you know that's what that's the good thing
• 32:35
  about humans you know we're all different yeah and and it's the type of thing
• 32:39
  that what you'll do is you'll you it's important to sort of go in be seen in
• 32:44
  these communities be seen set up friendships at these conventions and so forth
• 32:49
  and then have a little cohort that you can lean on and just nothing wrong with
• 32:52
  saying to someone hey hey,
• 32:53
  Harry, check out this move.
• 32:56
  I'm trying to achieve this. Is there a better way to do it?
• 32:59
  There's all these really funky ways you can do it, you know? So, yeah. Yeah.
• 33:04
  Speaking of Australians, we've got David Ung coming up next from Sydney.
• 33:08
  Send us in a speak pipe. Let's see what David's up to.
• 33:12
  Hi Magic guys, it's David Ong here. This year I decided to take magic seriously and do it full time.
• 33:19
  So I left my job last year and then just been trying to chug along,
• 33:23
  work out the business side of things.
• 33:25
  So your podcasts have been super helpful with all the business tips and I'm
• 33:30
  hoping next year will be an even better year.
• 33:32
  Anyways, in terms of gig stories. Hang on, I'm just going to pause that,
• 33:36
  David, before you get into your gig story.
• 33:38
  We have confirmation of the pudding.
• 33:42
  This is the most pizza-like pudding I've ever seen, but I could probably eat
• 33:45
  this-like pudding if you'd like.
• 33:48
  Oh, my God. Aaron, we're going to eat tonight.
• 33:52
  Yes. You sent me this pizza. I believe Matthew sent it to you,
• 33:57
  the Christian magician.
• 33:58
  Matthew Mosley, you're a rock star, brother. He stood up, he stepped up,
• 34:03
  and he got it done. That's what I'm talking about.
• 34:06
  That's how you know you've been successful. You're a real go-getter.
• 34:09
  And welcome back. I'm still helping new magicians in Chick Supply.
• 34:15
  So y'all continue that story and maybe I'll eat pizza in a couple of minutes. All right.
• 34:19
  Excellent. I'm just glad. Oh, Matthew's saying that pizza was not from him.
• 34:25
  Oh, the mystery deepens.
• 34:27
  Oh, so you had, that means you have something else coming as well. Okay. Nevermind.
• 34:32
  This is fantastic. Oh my God. This is fantastic. All right, Doug.
• 34:35
  This is good though. I didn't have dinner plans.
• 34:37
  So this is winning for me. you can put in your order live on stream all right
• 34:41
  we'll let you get back to the customers you get back to it doug we'll check
• 34:44
  we'll check that rb okay we'll get back to our las vegas correspondent shortly
• 34:50
  okay he's gone so he's gone what if we what if we ordered a stripper to go to,
• 34:58
  and then he's like lacy what are you doing here on a monday what.
• 35:03
  Would you sound like a phatogram just covered in
• 35:06
  pudding oh that would be good all right we should plan that for like maybe doug's
• 35:11
  birthday or something right just like just a lineup of things every 10 minutes
• 35:15
  something more hilarious comes in all right david so david's about to get into
• 35:19
  his gig story here we go also gig lessons being able to do the same tricks over and over again,
• 35:26
  Different events have been super fun. One of my favorite tricks to do is the
• 35:31
  multiple card selection.
• 35:32
  I had a time at a gig where the person asked after I retrieved all the cards,
• 35:37
  can you find our cards in a different order? I'm like, yeah, why not?
• 35:42
  Who do you want me to find? And then I just proceeded to find different people's
• 35:46
  cards in different orders.
• 35:47
  And I can only do that because of the foundation I have in Magic and all the
• 35:52
  reps that I've had over time.
• 35:54
  And so after that, I was super impressed. Not only because I found the cards, but in different order.
• 36:00
  Otherwise, thanks for all your work, guys. I can't wait to see what 2026 brings.
• 36:06
  Merry Christmas and have a happy new year. Well done, buddy. Thanks, David.
• 36:12
  First of all, in the comments, people are saying, but his wife might be at the
• 36:16
  store. So let's make it a male stripper. I do.
• 36:20
  I found Damien's Party male photograms.
• 36:25
  There i don't know if this is safe to put on the internet but maybe let's
• 36:28
  no no don't show us any more of that that's interesting if
• 36:34
  we ever start a patreon or something again that's maybe that's
• 36:37
  where that would go if we had a patron with money coming in
• 36:40
  all we would do is prank each other that would be it there would be nothing we
• 36:43
  just do the dumbest stuff to doug it would
• 36:46
  be great yeah it would be great because you know
• 36:49
  how i ordered you 10 pieces that time i remember the
• 36:52
  next the next episode i i wanted to order doug 10 pizzas but you can't they
• 36:58
  no pizza place would accept like an like an overseas order it just wouldn't
• 37:03
  do it anyway same with amazon i couldn't like send something from an australian
• 37:09
  amazon to him or order through the u.s amazon anyway,
• 37:13
  white privilege problems i can't send him food.
• 37:17
  David Ong, multiple card find, but name, but they can choose whose card you
• 37:22
  find is really interesting.
• 37:25
  I never considered that the order in which you find the cards could be what's impressive, you know?
• 37:30
  And that makes me think when I have cards selected, taken out of the deck and
• 37:37
  put back in, and I think I've seen Nick do the same thing.
• 37:40
  We sort of put them like in order, right? Like one, two, three, four.
• 37:43
  But if what if you could do a
• 37:46
  pseudo choice like what if you know you're
• 37:49
  going to try and make that person be found
• 37:52
  before this person so the second card you put like
• 37:54
  in the third position the second card you the third
• 37:57
  card you put in the second position you know do you know what i'm saying so you
• 38:01
  could like pretend like that's a
• 38:04
  challenge but really that's what you've set up yeah but
• 38:07
  once but once you control those cards into
• 38:10
  a slug and put it into position you just need
• 38:12
  to shift one or two cards to get the chosen
• 38:15
  card like i do it with four but the thing is for me is
• 38:18
  that when i try to do the reveals when someone's like phone mine i
• 38:22
  can't i kind of correct them being like now you're cutting
• 38:24
  her lunch that's a bit rude like i'll show you something nice for her and then
• 38:28
  you just want to cut her off and not let me give something to her and then i
• 38:32
  do it anyway but i kind of have this sort of notion it's like oh you want to
• 38:35
  cut her lunch and make it about you sure you know it's a different approach
• 38:39
  too yeah i just think they'd be more polite if they don't, but yes, it's a good idea.
• 38:43
  It can be done, but I think if you're going to do it, do it the way.
• 38:47
  Set the premise, go, okay, whose car do we find first?
• 38:51
  And then they go, this person's great. Snap, done. You know, like that's a fun thing.
• 38:56
  What if there's a way to, because what's made it so impressive for David's audience
• 39:01
  is that they've asked him without them thinking he could do it, you know?
• 39:07
  Like they've said, oh, does it have to be hers you find first?
• 39:10
  Like, what if there's a way to lead them into it?
• 39:14
  Like maybe saying something obvious, like your card was the first card, right?
• 39:19
  That's the one we should find first. And then maybe I don't know Maybe something
• 39:23
  like that Maybe an opening For them to say Oh no What about Find hers first
• 39:27
  And you maybe go Yours was an ace of hearts No yours was Oh cool Do you want
• 39:30
  to find yours or yours You call it You know Yeah,
• 39:36
  Do like a Blind call So to speak Yeah I like what David's opened up And I think
• 39:42
  that's Really worth exploring And Yeah That's fun,
• 39:47
  That's really fun Scotty P We've got Scotty P next.
• 39:51
  Scotty P. Poo Poo. Scotty actually sent in, I didn't mean to call you Scotty
• 39:55
  Poo Poo then. It just, it's the cake starting to hit me now.
• 39:59
  Oh yeah. And my brain cells are just turning to lard.
• 40:02
  But Scotty P actually sent in two speak pipes. So he's overachieving here.
• 40:07
  But let's see what number one has in store for us.
• 40:11
  Happy holidays and a huge thanks to the Magic guys for all the advice and support this year.
• 40:16
  I've been lucky enough to get out there and perform Magic for private parties,
• 40:21
  weddings and most recently Christmas parties.
• 40:24
  And if it wasn't for Josh and Jason starting this podcast five years ago and
• 40:29
  Nick and Doug building it into what it is today,
• 40:32
  I'd still be performing to a camera in my private little room and putting it
• 40:37
  on YouTube instead of getting out there and performing for live audiences.
• 40:41
  Which I find much more rewarding.
• 40:43
  My most memorable gig to the year was the International Convention Center here
• 40:48
  in Brisbane, and it was for a little over 1,000 people.
• 40:51
  And that's a memory that I'm not going to forget. So a huge thanks to the Magic
• 40:56
  guys for all they've done for us this year and being on 2026, baby.
• 41:02
  Baby! Yes, Scotty P.
• 41:07
  He's really doing it. He's really doing it.
• 41:10
  It's so great. scotty do you remember when we
• 41:12
  were in vegas and we're at that crazy show with a naked midget and we're all
• 41:18
  in the balcony and then he texted us oh yeah no that that did happen yeah yeah
• 41:22
  and then he texted us and he was all like i think i don't know what it was about
• 41:25
  it was something celebratory and it was like i got my first whatever and then
• 41:29
  we that video being like yeah scotty p,
• 41:33
  that's that stuff fills my cup man yeah scotty
• 41:37
  p if you went to vegas to magic live you'd be surprised how
• 41:40
  many people would recognize you especially with scotty p
• 41:42
  on your lanyard hanging around with the with the australian crew you know it
• 41:48
  would be it'd be a good time yeah that should happen we're gonna start a gofundme
• 41:53
  to send scotty p hey what's up papa oh your mic.
• 42:01
  Doug i think i think this is pudding but it's really cake but it looks like
• 42:07
  pudding from australia okay now we're rolling we've got pudding we've got pizza
• 42:13
  and pizza i got we are cooking,
• 42:18
  chris ramble oh wow or his brownies and brownies yes this is good all right
• 42:26
  it's gone again but this is awesome we're getting the food updates slowly but
• 42:30
  surely all right i'm keen to hear oh another one oh no what what is that a snack pack,
• 42:41
  has been acquired yes,
• 42:50
  bro you have the best community obviously we do
• 42:54
  you guys rock so wait so how many individual orders
• 42:57
  came in just then three two two and counting i don't know i got maybe i got
• 43:03
  two i got a pizza i'm assuming this is two delivery one you had pizza right
• 43:08
  then the cake looking brown things and then you also got pudding this one's
• 43:13
  from matthew thank you mr rosely.
• 43:18
  This is too good. What other podcast can during the podcast viewers send in
• 43:23
  donations and food live to the podcastees?
• 43:28
  I just had the dumbest thought. It was like American puddings taste like gun.
• 43:34
  That's why I didn't go get any earlier. I wasn't too excited about eating this,
• 43:38
  but I don't have to pay for it. I guess I'll eat it.
• 43:43
  Well, technically we didn't have to pay for it before because our friends sent
• 43:46
  us the funds for it yeah but now i am it's actually been sent right to you putting
• 43:52
  update i've yeah i've got like a third left i've tried really hard like i am
• 43:57
  yeah you've done well yeah
• 44:00
  i mean once you get down with coffee i'm really struggling i've hit the point of like,
• 44:06
  like when your skin tingles from the sugar intake yeah i'm gonna pass out eventually
• 44:11
  but I'm a professional All of this And not even blink an eye,
• 44:17
  Hell yeah Alright while we Divulge in this pudding Let's hear what Alex Lamb
• 44:21
  Has sent in for us On Instagram Non It has not been vetted Let's see what he's up to,
• 44:27
  Hey guys Happy New Year Merry Christmas,
• 44:31
  Josh asked me this Alex could you Could you speak any quieter When recording
• 44:35
  it That would be That would be awesome Alright we're gonna try The volume's
• 44:38
  all the way up We're gonna try our best To listen to what itty bitty squeaky Alex has got to say.
• 44:44
  Like recap my year of magic because I've been doing magic as a hobby like off
• 44:51
  and on for like 25 years okay can you guys hear that I think we might have to
• 44:54
  yeah no it's okay yeah keep rolling I'm gonna keep playing really only in the
• 44:59
  last year that I started doing gigs,
• 45:02
  learned a lot learned when to move on and like stopped trying to crack particular
• 45:07
  like tough nut of a spectator Earth.
• 45:10
  Learning what tricks work and what don't, you know, just because you like it
• 45:14
  and you go and do it 10 times and nobody likes it doesn't mean keep doing it.
• 45:17
  You know, it might work in a different context, but, you know,
• 45:21
  don't put it in your close-up bag for a gig if it's not working.
• 45:24
  I think the biggest thing is just confidence.
• 45:27
  Like, it used to be when I had a few gigs very sporadically,
• 45:32
  I'd be, like, nervous about it all week, like, two weeks.
• 45:35
  And now it's kind of like, I don't even really sweat it until, like, the day of.
• 45:39
  And even then it's like yep I know what I'm doing I know what works I think
• 45:44
  the other big thing is I feel much more confident in my misdirection so I've
• 45:49
  been kind of doing stuff that's a little bit more ballsier I guess,
• 45:54
  I've been doing the chop cup recently.
• 45:58
  And when I kind of started like practicing it doing like the final loads I was
• 46:02
  like there's no way you know,
• 46:04
  especially if it's sort of like a standing up like parlor style
• 46:07
  set I'm like there's no way like I have to reach into
• 46:10
  my back pocket or my other jacket pocket and pull out the
• 46:13
  ball and load it in and based on what I've seen you know people's reactions
• 46:17
  they're not clocking it like I'm sure I'm not naive enough to say oh nobody's
• 46:21
  seen it I'm getting away with it all the time but when that final big ball comes
• 46:26
  out of the chop cup and people react I'm like okay it's working you know,
• 46:31
  yeah and i owe a lot to you guys and particularly
• 46:34
  to josh kind of been coaching me through
• 46:37
  this year giving me and everybody you
• 46:40
  know you guys too giving me really good tips with like
• 46:43
  quotes and effects and audience management and
• 46:47
  all that stuff so i'm very very grateful to all you
• 46:49
  guys and uh yeah happy new
• 46:52
  year i'll see you around the corner well let's see how grateful you are my paypal
• 46:56
  is jay ah that's awesome that's awesome that's great i mean that guy really
• 47:05
  like he not only loves his job and he's got a good little life doing that when
• 47:11
  you see someone like alex lamb.
• 47:13
  He's driven by passion and when you see someone who has passion it's so much easier to build talent,
• 47:20
  and that's why in the space of a year he's got to where he is
• 47:23
  and it's just great great to hear everybody well done yeah
• 47:27
  and he's going out there and doing it and and he's even changing
• 47:30
  his image he went got himself a slim shady haircut
• 47:33
  bleached his hair really looked like a real
• 47:35
  magic character it's really cool to see you know it's a pity you know his audience
• 47:40
  can't hear him but otherwise this magic's really good you know all right no
• 47:46
  we love you alex pascha's up next pascha part of the Theater of Magic team.
• 47:53
  What do you got for us, Pasha?
• 47:55
  Hey, it's Pasha here. First time. By the way, that's how you talk into a microphone, everyone. Okay.
• 48:00
  Big Piper. I just wanted to say thank you guys for the awesome year that you put into the Magic Guys.
• 48:07
  It's been absolutely fantastic. And congratulations on your FISM Award.
• 48:11
  And my little, I guess, magic gig tidbit is I got to experience magic for the
• 48:17
  first time at my Christmas party.
• 48:20
  And it was absolutely fantastic seeing the wonderful Mike Tyler,
• 48:24
  probably one of Brisbane's hardest working magicians, along with Josh Nibito.
• 48:29
  But yeah, it was great to see him perform, but it was also great to see my colleagues
• 48:34
  react and then what they said after he'd finished, which was absolutely fantastic,
• 48:39
  just seeing how flabbergasted they were.
• 48:42
  And even on Spongeballs, I always thought Spongeballs were kids.
• 48:46
  I know I keep it in my routines, but it was absolutely fantastic seeing these
• 48:50
  great adults just cry over, how did the Spongeballs get in my hands? So well done to him.
• 48:55
  And yeah, thanks, Magic Guys. Thanks, Josh. Thanks, Nick. Thanks,
• 48:59
  Doug, for the wonderful year.
• 49:02
  Yeah, shout out, Pasha.
• 49:06
  That's such a trip because Pasha is a teacher by trade, teaches the youth of Australia.
• 49:12
  And so what he's saying is at a Christmas party, one of, honestly,
• 49:16
  one of Australia's best roving magician, one of magicians in general,
• 49:20
  Mike Tyler, one of the busiest by far, He got to just watch him work the crowd.
• 49:25
  That's bloody awesome. And we need to get Mike on here. It's just, he's literally so busy.
• 49:29
  We talk almost every day back and forth about inquiries and gigs that we can't do.
• 49:34
  Most are from him because he is only one man and he can only be in so many places.
• 49:39
  But SpongeBob. So what's so funny is like he's one of, this is a lesson.
• 49:43
  He's one of the busiest working magicians that I personally know.
• 49:48
  One of his hardest hitting routines is Sponge Balls. You know,
• 49:52
  if you can make it funny, you can make it fun. Yeah. Yeah.
• 49:57
  I think there's, it doesn't need to be a debate where you just,
• 50:00
  you can't dog the Sponge Balls. You just can't. It is.
• 50:04
  Yeah. I mean, I'm pretty sure that Joshua J did like a whole thesis on this.
• 50:10
  And yeah, it was proven that like Sponge Balls is where it's at.
• 50:14
  Doug? I was busy telling my coworkers to come get some cake and brownies.
• 50:20
  I wasn't listening to any of that. Pardon my unprofessionalism.
• 50:24
  And we can blame it on the person who had Domino's dessert delivered to Doug Kahn.
• 50:29
  Hey, now you get to seem like a good citizen because you're sharing food with
• 50:35
  your fellow coworkers. Let's see if we can get the camera over here.
• 50:39
  Everyone's enjoying the pouty. That's Vincent.
• 50:42
  There's my wife, Erin. thank you oh
• 50:46
  the famous erin thank you for
• 50:49
  keeping doug alive y'all eat all that like i'll go
• 50:52
  into a sugar coma at this point but dig in
• 50:55
  and have pudding please maybe dial nine one just to get ahead of the curve all
• 51:01
  right let me get back on track here and focus okay that's so funny okay next
• 51:05
  yeah so we're talking about sponge balls doug and basically like even the pros
• 51:10
  you know we can bag it all we want or,
• 51:12
  or love it all we want, but it's like, it's such a killer.
• 51:15
  Yeah, it is. I mean, if anyone wants to go, go to war with me,
• 51:19
  I'm just going to remind them that it was one of Eugene Berger's favorite tricks
• 51:22
  to perform for the laity.
• 51:24
  So you can argue with him and not me.
• 51:28
  You can't, you can't dog the SpongeBob. That's so dope. Um, one of the things
• 51:31
  that people don't do enough, I think is use SpongeBalls instead of normal balls
• 51:36
  for their cups and balls acts.
• 51:40
  I had a buddy of mine from Canada who used to do that. Jesse Mark used to do it in his act.
• 51:45
  It's a lot of fun to be had if you experiment with that. So if you have cups
• 51:51
  and balls and you have sponge, my advice?
• 51:54
  Johnny Paul style. You can research Johnny Paul cups and balls.
• 51:58
  You might find some information on that.
• 52:00
  I think he did it on a video for Greater Magic Library.
• 52:05
  My buddy Dante did that routine on the street because you know what?
• 52:08
  It brings the hands-in element to the cups and balls routine.
• 52:12
  You know, it includes that moment where the spectator opens their hand and feels the magic.
• 52:16
  And often in cups and balls, that doesn't exist at all.
• 52:20
  You know, that hands-on moment missing from cups and balls.
• 52:26
  Right. Anything, yeah, any effect where something that shouldn't be in my hand
• 52:30
  is in my hand has that well moment.
• 52:33
  That's why double cross is so strong, sponge balls, copper, silver in the hand,
• 52:39
  card changing in their hand.
• 52:42
  It all gives that same magic essence.
• 52:46
  Scott Link Magic just sent in a speak pipe. Let's, oh, come on,
• 52:51
  David. Look at this. Look at this.
• 52:55
  A $100 Merry Christmas. And we've sent pizza and pudding to Target.
• 53:02
  Technically, I just received desserts.
• 53:04
  There was no pizza involved. I got a brownie pie. I got Cinnabites.
• 53:08
  I got pudding cake, which by the way, the Domino's chocolate cake is surprisingly delicious.
• 53:14
  And thanks, Matthew, again for that pudding. You guys are wild.
• 53:18
  You guys are bloody wild.
• 53:19
  Has the male stripper turned up for Aaron yet? That's what we're wanting to know.
• 53:24
  Anyway, Scott Link has sent in a voice message. Let's see if we can get to his
• 53:28
  before we have to wrap this thing up and go in a coma.
• 53:31
  Scotty Link, a food coma, that is. Let's see what you got.
• 53:35
  Hey, guys, it's Scott Link in Charlotte, North Carolina. A London production,
• 53:40
  The Magician's Table, came to the States, and Charlotte is their first city.
• 53:47
  I missed the first round of auditions because I had conflict dates with the NBA Charlotte Hornets.
• 53:55
  But I did go to the auditions for the second round, and with Sponge Bunnies, I got the gig.
• 54:02
  Yay! So I'll be one of the magicians at the magician's table through the end of February.
• 54:08
  What? Merry Christmas, guys. Badass, Scott. Take care.
• 54:12
  Buddy. Yo.
• 54:15
  That's incredible. Sponge Bunnies won the audition to the magician's table.
• 54:20
  What an exciting time to be a magician in Charlotte.
• 54:23
  Scott, is it in Charlotte that way they're doing it?
• 54:26
  The magician's table? I think that's what he just said. Yeah.
• 54:29
  We just had Damien O'Brien on a few weeks back. Yep.
• 54:33
  Talking about the magician's table in the UK where, where it first started, right? That's correct.
• 54:40
  Yeah. They got a cast over there. It's killer. I've seen a couple of,
• 54:42
  uh, us magicians post, uh, got like Chastain Criswell's over there and.
• 54:47
  Wow. Hosted by Blumenthal. That's amazing.
• 54:50
  Congrats, Scotty. Scott Link. That's amazing. Congrats.
• 54:55
  Looks like a great gig, actually. That's so great.
• 54:58
  We love hearing the, like, celebrating and the good news, you guys,
• 55:01
  and the successes of you guys, man. It's just so great.
• 55:04
  I hope people got to watch the auditions and, like, everyone's there going,
• 55:08
  oh, yeah, I got my new T&R restoration.
• 55:11
  Yeah. I got my triple phase ambitious, and I got my cup. And then he just walks
• 55:16
  in with, yeah, I got my sponge bunnies.
• 55:18
  Just floors them. Smart man. Scott Lang, smart man. That's wisdom.
• 55:24
  So true. Also this, Scott's been doing magic for as long as I have.
• 55:28
  We were employed by the same amusement park in the 80s.
• 55:33
  I think he was at the magic shop at the time. He transitioned to atmosphere.
• 55:37
  So might have something to do in magic a couple of 40 years too, you know?
• 55:43
  Right on. That's so good.
• 55:46
  Sponge bunnies for the win. Sponge balls. How many left, Josh, of the pipes?
• 55:53
  Look, we do have a double up from, oh, you know what?
• 55:57
  We've just had Tim Raymond send one in, flying in at the last second.
• 56:01
  You know what? Let's open up Tim and see what he's got going on. Tim, you just made it.
• 56:08
  Hey, guys. Been loving the podcast. Just got into it this year.
• 56:12
  Yeah, been doing a few gigs slowly, building up Tim Raymond magic and doing
• 56:18
  a few more country events and things like that.
• 56:21
  Just been loving getting all the advice from you guys and doing a few gigs and
• 56:26
  using the Ray-Ban Metas that Josh recommended. They've been awesome for getting
• 56:30
  some social media content.
• 56:32
  Keep up the great work. Looking forward to an awesome 2026.
• 56:37
  Yeah, Tim, I've really enjoyed seeing Tim's content go up there.
• 56:41
  A lot of POV magic action at the festival he's been doing.
• 56:46
  Thanks for jumping on live, Tim. And you're doing it, man.
• 56:49
  You're doing it. And you know what? There's nowhere to hide.
• 56:51
  When you put up POV clips, like you can't hide behind a fancy promo video where
• 56:58
  anyone can look good, you know?
• 56:59
  Like if you can show a raw routine and people are reacting and laughing, it just, you know,
• 57:06
  shows you're a great show and you're on your way it's very
• 57:09
  cool to see yeah doug have
• 57:12
  you have you ever thought of the idea of having like
• 57:15
  meta ray bands on when you're like at
• 57:17
  trick supply or something and you're like demoing absolutely i'm
• 57:21
  just you know i'm being a little gun shy for buying the hot new tech
• 57:24
  out of the gate so maybe i'm waiting for gen 2
• 57:27
  a little bit but uh for sure i want them i want them if someone could just quickly
• 57:34
  amazon a pair to him right now imagine the universe where some of our patrons
• 57:41
  are just that wealthy dude you never know,
• 57:46
  Yeah, you never know. I'll wait here.
• 57:51
  Boy, I'll use them if they show up. That's for sure. Yes, I'd love to have some.
• 57:55
  Is there any more pipe left? No, look, there was a double up from Scotty P,
• 58:01
  but maybe we'll save it for next week.
• 58:03
  Because again, we want to hear what your goals are for next week.
• 58:06
  So send them in and we're going to, because honestly, and don't think of this
• 58:10
  as like, I may or may not send in my goals.
• 58:12
  What I've 100% noticed is if you put your real goals out into existence,
• 58:17
  you speak it into the world, like there's a very measurable,
• 58:22
  like higher rate that that will happen.
• 58:25
  Testify. I do it all the time. Some, some kind of, there's some kind of frequency
• 58:30
  that happens when you actually release it to the universe.
• 58:33
  And the amount of times I've surprised myself with the achievements.
• 58:37
  You gotta abracadabra that shit.
• 58:39
  Speak it into existence. 100%. Yeah.
• 58:42
  So that's what we want to do. But before we wrap up, Nick, did you finish your pudding?
• 58:49
  How far did you go? I'm so defeated. I reached a couple of times.
• 58:54
  I think it's about a quarter left.
• 58:57
  I've just been verping up a storm. I've been dieting for a month.
• 59:01
  My stomach has shrunk immensely.
• 59:03
  And this is the most. Is that a recommended size?
• 59:06
  Do they sell it? Like, here's your pudding. It's this size. Is that how it comes? For like a family.
• 59:12
  For like a horse it's a pound it's a
• 59:15
  full pound of cake is it really yeah oh my yeah this is for like a whole table
• 59:20
  like everyone would take like a portion of it and but this is super fun hey
• 59:26
  we hope you all have a fantastic christmas some time off you know oh nick oh
• 59:32
  you're burping okay nice,
• 59:34
  no honestly from over here like have a great christmas you know take some time
• 59:39
  to relax Don't worry about, you know, posting magic videos or whatever,
• 59:43
  or just, you know, just chill.
• 59:46
  And we're going to freaking firestorm 2026, you know.
• 59:51
  That's right. And as Dragote just said, correct.
• 59:55
  Thank you for all your support over the year. I hope you guys have an amazing
• 59:59
  Christmas. There is a Christmas after party on the Discord, on the video channel.
• 1:00:05
  So as soon as we bounce out of here, I will be on there.
• 1:00:08
  Anyone else who wants to come and join we'll talk magic, we'll share magic we'll
• 1:00:13
  just kick out for a little while so that'll be us great, alright guys thanks
• 1:00:19
  for the pizza desserts we should finish on Merry Christmas,
• 1:00:23
  one, two, three.
• 1:00:26
  Merry Christmas Merry Christmas thanks for listening it's time for us to disappear
• 1:00:34
  now disappear now but we'll see you again on the next episode of the magic guys.