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Breakfast Bonus: Cosentino the grand illusionist! · Toni, Jase & Sam - Breakfast Catchup

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  Speaker 1: The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason Sam Hi,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for listening to our Breakfast Bonus podcast. Today, we're
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  Speaker 1: talking to magician Constantino. You may have seen him on
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  Speaker 1: his TV specials. He's bringing his stage show to New Zealand.
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  Speaker 1: We're caught up with him and asked him, what can
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  Speaker 1: you expect from these shows?
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  Speaker 2: I always expect the unexpected. That doesn't give you much information,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't it.
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  Speaker 1: That's a sticker though.
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  Speaker 3: I like it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, because it's interesting because people always they see
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  Speaker 2: the show and then they say, oh, it's not what
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  Speaker 2: I expect them. I said, well, what did you expect?
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  Speaker 2: Then it's a magic show. So when I say that,
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  Speaker 2: I guess you think magic tricks and things appearing and
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  Speaker 2: disappearing true. And then there's a lot of audience participation.
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  Speaker 2: There's his crazy death defying escapes. There's very immersive, interactive,
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  Speaker 2: it's a little it's quite funny.
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  Speaker 1: Usually when you talk about these dittifying stunts. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: this is what always blows my mind about magicians such
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  Speaker 1: as yourself and these illusionists. When you rehearse those there's
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  Speaker 1: clearly got to be a point where this could go wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't done this before. What goes through your mind?
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  Speaker 1: That what makes you think I'm going to get that
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  Speaker 1: a go?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. When I film my TV shows, it's usually a
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  Speaker 2: one off. You're doing it just for the TV, and
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  Speaker 2: that's when it goes wrong because you haven't really rehearsed it.
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  Speaker 1: That.
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  Speaker 2: Time frames for TV are ridiculous. Everything's squeezed into this
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  Speaker 2: short amount of time to practice and rehearse. And what
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  Speaker 2: goes through my mind, I'm thinking I need more time.
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  Speaker 2: That's usually what's going through my mind. But no, when
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  Speaker 2: you do the escapes, you can't you can't think in
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  Speaker 2: your head, oh, it's going to go wrong. You can't
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  Speaker 2: have that attitude of oh, this knife is going to
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  Speaker 2: come directly at me and that's going to be under
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  Speaker 2: my career. If you think like that, you're not going
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  Speaker 2: to do it. You're going to get into it. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I have a team around me, and it's a calculated risk.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same way that you guys bungee jump like
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  Speaker 2: it's you don't it's you plan for it, but things
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  Speaker 2: can go wrong.
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  Speaker 1: There's a rest.
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  Speaker 2: There are always rest and when you do it every night,
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  Speaker 2: or if you're doing it for a one off, special
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  Speaker 2: and you haven't kind of ironed out everything it can be.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I've been cut by knives.
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  Speaker 3: And well, if you do it every night, that's when
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  Speaker 3: you become complacent. People always closer to their own home.
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  Speaker 2: Correct that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: True?
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  Speaker 4: Do you know what I'd like to know is what
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  Speaker 4: sits you apart? Because you know, I'm sure a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people would want to do what you're doing for
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  Speaker 4: their living, and you are so successful at it, You're
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  Speaker 4: selling out places around the world. So what do you
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  Speaker 4: think it is that you've got that some people don't?
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  Speaker 3: So looks, look at the face on them, look at
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  Speaker 3: its beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the what sets it now? Look,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard for me to say that. It's hard to
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  Speaker 2: step back and look at it. It's a good question.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a it's a lot of things that
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  Speaker 2: have to work together. First off, I broke through over
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  Speaker 2: ten years ago on a show called Australia's Got Talent,
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  Speaker 2: but I'd been working at it fifteen years prior to
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  Speaker 2: Australia's Got Talent. And when I mean working, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't mean like dabbling in my bedroom, I mean like
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  Speaker 2: getting out there and traveling on the road and putting
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  Speaker 2: on shows and putting bums in seats and selling tickets
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  Speaker 2: and hustling and rejection rejection and sending out vhs videotapes,
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  Speaker 2: old old school, you know, I'm thirteen four, two years old,
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  Speaker 2: sending out these tapes and rejection, rejection, rejection, and flying
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  Speaker 2: to the States and blah blah blah blah, on and on.
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  Speaker 2: You noticing dragging it on. It was fifteen years. Everyone
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  Speaker 2: over like, yes, but there's no such thing. So that's
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  Speaker 2: the first thing, the real hustle. By the time I
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  Speaker 2: got my breakelets call it, I had already been doing
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  Speaker 2: my own theater shows, designing my own posters, knew how
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  Speaker 2: to talk on radio. I've done it. I've done it all, literally,
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  Speaker 2: just at a level that I wasn't really happy with,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because I was trying to build up to it.
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  Speaker 2: But I'd already done it all. So when I got
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  Speaker 2: the break, I could literally just ride it all the
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  Speaker 2: way through. And that's and then I got my first
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  Speaker 2: TV special and it kind of so that's how it happened.
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  Speaker 2: Through the hard work. And then in my show, there's
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  Speaker 2: a combination of the slide of hand, close up magic,
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  Speaker 2: the escapes, the illusions, and I think what separates it
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  Speaker 2: really is the showmanship and the presentation, because anyone can
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  Speaker 2: learn a magic trick, but not everyone can make it
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  Speaker 2: look like magic. Yeah, yeah, sure, And I think that's
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  Speaker 2: the big difference.
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  Speaker 3: So what is the magic for you? Then? What is
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  Speaker 3: driving you to continue doing this? Is it the reaction
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  Speaker 3: of the crowd when you're doing a big show or
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  Speaker 3: is it the construction of developing those tricks and making
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  Speaker 3: like I've nailed it now that's gonna work. Like is it?
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  Speaker 3: Is it the development of the show or is it
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  Speaker 3: the reactions?
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  Speaker 2: It's just a paycheck.
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  Speaker 1: And you want to make that disappear.
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  Speaker 2: So let me answer these guys that know, no, it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's a couple of things. Well, first off, to be honest,
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  Speaker 2: if I'm being really honest about it, to be able
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  Speaker 2: to turn my hobby, my passion, my craft into a
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  Speaker 2: profession and make a living off it, that's a really
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  Speaker 2: beautiful thing. So I make fun of it. I make
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  Speaker 2: fun of it, but that's actually truely to been able
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  Speaker 2: to make a living off it, it is the creative process.
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  Speaker 2: I really do enjoy coming up with ideas and testing
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  Speaker 2: things out, and you know, tweaking a word and rearranging
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  Speaker 2: it and going, oh that really hit. That really worked
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  Speaker 2: the same way comedian would do that. And then it's
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  Speaker 2: the reaction from the audience and you're bringing you're bringing joy.
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  Speaker 2: And when my father's structural engineer, my mother's school prints, well,
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  Speaker 2: my brothers an engineer, you know, and I get to
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  Speaker 2: talk on radio about my show and you guys asking
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  Speaker 2: it's a pretty you gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Have a lot of great but you cloned up the
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  Speaker 3: family structure of it. Oh god, he's going nowhere with us.
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  Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden you're a server star
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  Speaker 3: from the bottom to the top of the family.
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  Speaker 2: Hustle. Must have come from somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, true, it's very very true. It is.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a great nationwide to happen a little later
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  Speaker 1: on this year, November and December. The details you gotta
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  Speaker 1: endeavor live fors least Constantino. But again, if you google Constantino,
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand dates, you'll find it just there as well.
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  Speaker 1: Because you're really good at all this. Obviously you made
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  Speaker 1: a bit of living out of it, bit of a
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  Speaker 1: TV show. You have heard the name. Is it possible
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  Speaker 1: because your cameras in the studio. Now, is it possible
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  Speaker 1: to do a little trick in front of us?
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  Speaker 2: I can? I can?
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  Speaker 1: Is that all right?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to take off my headoids and you guys
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  Speaker 2: can describe what's happening a little bit as well.
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  Speaker 1: Commentation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to stand up and get into it.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you do your things?
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  Speaker 3: Sure, falls away from his chair, pulls his headphones off.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna grab my very cute looking but dazzled back pep.
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  Speaker 3: Now there's a pack of cards and a sharpie on
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  Speaker 3: the table. Now when I look at that sharpie, I
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  Speaker 3: see a black lid and and and and a red
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  Speaker 3: line around it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, can you can you help me? Don't sure?
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  Speaker 1: So if you need hands, all that's gonna be on
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  Speaker 1: socials at Coast Breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all the cards are different. It's important, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't even matter because you're just going to select
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  Speaker 2: to take one any card you like. Okay, the Ace
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  Speaker 2: of Diamonds. Great, So take the pen, write your name,
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  Speaker 2: sign your name on it, your name on it, and
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  Speaker 2: then we'll get it on camera.
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  Speaker 4: Done it, bag taken away.
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  Speaker 3: Tony always says, that's not a signature, that's an autograph.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. So there it is Ace of Diamonds,
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  Speaker 2: great card with Tony's name on it. Perfect. So Tony, Tony,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to take your card and you're going to
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  Speaker 2: just hold it like that. Don't do anything else to
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  Speaker 2: cup it like that so everyone can can you explain?
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  Speaker 3: Card has been folded? Tony's holding to four in her
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  Speaker 3: pincers between her thumb and her index finger.
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  Speaker 2: That's it, okay. And I've just taken the top card,
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  Speaker 2: the next card above, okay, and I'll do what is mine,
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  Speaker 2: six of Spades, and I've done the exact same thing.
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  Speaker 2: My name. Yeah, So I've got the Six of Spades
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  Speaker 2: and it's got my name, my signature on it, and
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  Speaker 2: you've got the Ace of Diamonds.
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  Speaker 3: Has folded the card and is holding it in his pincers.
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  Speaker 1: And my.
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  Speaker 2: All right, are you well okay with all COVID and everything,
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  Speaker 2: you're not?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? Hit me?
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  Speaker 2: Okay? Do you want to just bite the card? Okay? Great? Okay.
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  Speaker 3: They're both and they've got them in their Mouths is
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  Speaker 3: approaching Tony like he's going to do some kind of
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  Speaker 3: card exchange. It looks like he is doing a proposal
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  Speaker 3: at the stage and they're working towards each other like
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  Speaker 3: they're going to go for a kiss. And and now
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  Speaker 3: he's effectively whipped pistol, whipped Tony's card with Constantino's card
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  Speaker 3: over the top.
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  Speaker 2: There did not take my cargo, no worry.
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  Speaker 3: And he's moved away. It's impossible the card in Tony's
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  Speaker 3: mouth has switched to Constantino's card.
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  Speaker 4: I was biting hard.
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  Speaker 2: I promised.
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  Speaker 4: There's no way you took that out of my mouth.
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  Speaker 2: How on earth is slight of tongue?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, he just.
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  Speaker 4: It's remarkable.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not only remarkable, kind of romantic at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: It's a bit early for that, but I thought close
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  Speaker 2: and personal.
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  Speaker 4: I have no idea how you did that because I
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  Speaker 4: was across that whole thing and I was biting hard.
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  Speaker 2: You know how.
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  Speaker 4: Computed it was.
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  Speaker 3: It reminded me of when I was a kid at
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  Speaker 3: high school playing past the record. But we did it
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  Speaker 3: with our butt cheeks.
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  Speaker 2: I've done that. Maybe that would been inappropriate. Is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Wow again, watch even watch it in slow motion at
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  Speaker 1: Coast Breakfast on Instagram and Facebook. You won't even be
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  Speaker 1: able to figure it out. Constantino, Thank you for everything,
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  Speaker 1: Good luck for the tour pleasure. Thank you for having me,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the Coast Breakfast Bonus podcast, Get
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  Speaker 1: your day started with Coasts Feel Good Breakfast Tony Street,
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  Speaker 1: Jays Reeves, and Sam Wallace.