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Wildest Gig Fails! #240 · The Magic Guys

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  They're guys. They do magic. They are the Magic Guys.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode 240 of the Magic Guys. That is insane.
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  We're almost at the five-year mark. To my left, we've got Nick K.
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  That's right, I'm Nick K. And down beneath me, we have the amazing Doug Kahn.
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  What's up everybody it's i didn't realize that you ever had that comment it's
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  like it's like he walked into the room with the confidence of a nine-year-old
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  wearing a batman t-shirt that's doug con today there's only a few places you
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  can wear a rick flair t-shirt i figured this podcast is one of them,
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  I don't know a better place where you could wear one. You know, this is the place.
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  This is definitely, I'm repping an old school Magic Ice t-shirt when we first
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  made one to incorporate Nick. That's a collectible.
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  Back with Nick and Hayes.
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  Yeah, there's nothing funny about that. When did you have hair, Nick?
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  Oh, dude, I actually got rid of my, I knew where I was heading.
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  So I chose to get rid of my hair at very early in my 20s, sort of my early 20s,
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  because I just knew where I was going.
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  And the funny thing is that all my buddies that I like went to high school with,
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  they all say to me, like after obviously becoming accustomed to my chrome head,
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  they all said like, you know, what's weird, man?
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  Like now in my memories, you're bald. like in
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  my high school memories or in my even my buddies that
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  i like because we've been friends primary school they'd be
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  like you're you're bald in my memories in all my
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  memories now and it's just a little something to think about as magicians because
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  you know we can manipulate that yeah true when i think back to being a kid i
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  still think of myself now i guess doing the thing why i don't go to high school
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  reunions i had a mullet. Wow.
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  I arrived in New Orleans with a ponytail. Dude, you had achy breaky hair.
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  I've shown those pictures before on this podcast. I'll refrain from doing so again today.
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  Yeah, if you go down my Facebook photos down the rabbit hole, you'll see.
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  Hell yeah. In Australia, Doug, mullets are back in Trent.
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  So don't be afraid to use that as your next promo.
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  I'm going to bring it back, but I'm going to have the Hulk Hogan look where
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  it's just the bottom 9% of my hair grows out. But it'll be long.
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  I'll wear a bandana. You'll never know. I'm going to switch it up from the hat.
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  Hell yeah. hell yeah well here are not friends
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  thank you for being here quick shout out to our friends in the chat thomas
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  good to see you buddy we have scott link tim askin dragoteer
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  buddy good to see you i was just saying before the show how we
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  have a a green room uh discord where
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  we take photographs whenever we're in like funny looking discord and nick's
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  the best because he just like he grades them all like
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  he's like room's not green there's only one chair two
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  out of ten like it's just comments alone
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  are hilarious yeah mike thank you for being
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  here guys we we had
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  some pretty heavy chats over the time over the past three
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  weeks with interviews and so forth and we've spoken about a lot of gigs that
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  were actually like awful and one of the things we sort of gathered is through
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  our chats and and conversations in the discord and obviously in the live chats
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  there's a lot of kind of fear based around performing oh i'm scared this is
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  going to happen i'm scared this is going to happen.
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  And it's like, well, the worst can happen.
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  It's not likely. And it may happen to you, but when it does, you get through it.
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  And on the other side, you're better off for it. And there's something to be
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  learned from it. And that's exactly what the premise of today's episode is.
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  So we put the word out on our socials and our discord and said,
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  guys, tell us the worst story you've dealt with. Right.
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  And as far as I know, Josh, we got quite a response.
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  You know we are not short of horror stories at
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  events you do enough gigs and eventually like
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  stuff's gonna happen out of our control and i the half of these and thank you
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  so much i think we have like eight people sent in messages in time for this
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  podcast and so what always happens is i've listened to like half of them and
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  even the half i've listened to i'm like damn that's,
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  that's unfortunate and so what better way to feel better about it than you know
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  talking about it And we can, you know, I'm sure there's a way to learn from it ish.
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  And also just to know that if it happens to you, you're not alone.
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  This is not like a, you know, you're not the only one that goes through unfortunate things sometimes.
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  Exactly. And half the time you're scared to even approach a table.
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  Like if you're scared to approach a table and they say, no, that's the worst
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  thing that's going to happen.
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  At least no one's going to die at your gig, which is like what happened to me.
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  We haven't listened to all the messages yet, so we don't know.
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  Now, yeah, let's put a disclaimer out there before we move forward.
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  The show is live and we got a lot of last minute things.
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  We do these things kind of in the morning here in Australia.
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  So we didn't have an opportunity to vet all of them. So if there's any foul
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  language or any sort of very adult themes, we apologize in advance.
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  This is your disclaimer now.
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  How do we start this, Josh? Look, we're just going to go down the line here.
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  We got Andy Massey sent in the first one. Shout out to Andy if you're in the
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  chat, might come a bit later.
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  So once again, it's live. I'm going to look to Nick for the volume.
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  This one I haven't listened to. So they're my favorite types.
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  So let's see what Andy's up to. Hey, Magic guys.
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  This is Andy over here in Kansas City, United States.
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  I had a magic gig last night at a haunted house, and so I was doing magic for people.
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  And my question for you guys is, what have you done to get out of times where
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  you feel like people have caught you?
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  So I just had a cool incident where this guy basically called out that I palmed a card off.
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  My hands happened to kind of like already be crossed and in my armpits.
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  And so he called it out. I just quickly thought like, I'm just going to leave
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  this card in my armpit. So I pinched it in my armpit, brought my hands out clean.
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  Grabbed the deck back from him and then asked him to shuffle it up one more
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  time just to make sure there was no card on top.
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  And then I put it back. So I felt pretty good about that little juke and jive that I did.
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  So curious if you guys have any fun stories about time. So you thought you're
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  going to get caught, but you got your way out of it using your magical wisdom. Thanks, guys.
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  Dude, I think you just shared a great nugget with the audience,
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  like palming, pit palming we might call it is what a great idea you can show
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  your hands clean come back steal it again Doug you had any work on this seeing
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  people do it what's yeah what's.
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  So on that technique, I'm thinking pitch and ditch from Greg Wilson.
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  He's got some stuff under the arm, pitching it.
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  That's a different technique, but Greg Wilson has some ideas.
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  As mainly as I was listening to the story reflecting on how we grow as magicians.
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  And when these incidents happen, we get these little pieces of kit now.
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  So now you know what to do when someone pops you with your palm in the car.
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  You got that palm under the arm ditch available. and
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  as we grow and keep growing and work more and perform more
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  you get more of those out as the
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  case might be so uh
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  yeah so greg milson for that technique and
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  yeah perform as much as you can you learn more out
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  yeah i'd also like to uh shout out dave williamson
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  who has a version of this that he teaches in one
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  of his dvd sets the ridiculous box set
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  where he puts cards behind his knee like in
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  between his thigh and his knee like and just so when he's sitting he
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  can palm cards off and just put them there and in the action of just sort of like
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  wiping his hands down like on his pants to be like oh my hands are sticky like
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  he might do something of that nature but it's a really nice way to hold out
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  okay i just did it behind my behind my neck you could be like oh man how about
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  that you know you just made up a holdout you can even do that to a spectator
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  if they're wearing a suit jacket,
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  in the action of moving them, you guys should put it underneath their suit jacket.
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  Greg Wilson calls it pit stop. Pit stop is the Greg Wilson technique.
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  Yeah. Heck yeah. And I know if you're wearing a vest, you can do the holdout
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  under the vest as well, right?
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  You can palm it, put it underneath the bottom of your vest. It'll stay there too.
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  But like that, Andy, that's like the best get out of, I saw you palm something I've ever heard.
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  Like normally people like, you know, quickly try and put it back on the deck.
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  Like, ah, you know, what are you talking about? You know what I like to do with
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  fun haters? If they say something like that, I'll, I'll just go balls out with them.
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  I'll be like, well, did you catch the finger palm? or what about the break?
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  What about the pass? Did you catch that?
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  How about the joke to cover the slight? Did you appreciate that moment?
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  You know, it depends. And it always depends.
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  This is street performing, Doug. You know, if someone's going to heckle me on
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  the street, I'd call them my technique out.
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  I'll maybe call them out as a fun hater to kind of like bounce the moment back.
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  And again, it always depends.
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  But if the dynamic is right, that kind of interaction could work for you maybe.
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  Hmm and tim tim's sort of saying uh tim asking
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  made a comment saying they're kind of fun haters now that that might be so what
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  i like to do is if sometimes people will criticize you or say that you've done
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  something after the fact and for me more times they're not they're miles off
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  and i just kind of stop them and look at them and just go like hang on a second
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  are you asking me or telling me and it's my favorite thing i go hey ask me how
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  it's done are you telling me how it's done,
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  and if they're and so if they say i'm telling you i go why are you telling me for i know how it's done.
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  You don't tell me anything I don't already know. Yeah, I'll say that too.
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  I say I know that, but I don't talk about it.
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  Yeah. But I just, I think the question of saying, why are you telling me works
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  really well? Cause it's like, yeah, that's good.
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  Because it makes them go, because I'm a person with a little dick and I have
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  to prove that I know something. It's like, oh, that's what you're doing. Okay.
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  Fair enough. And if they, and if they, and if they say, like,
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  instead of I'm telling you, they go, I'm asking you, I go, you know, I can't tell you.
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  Yeah. You know? And I just write it off like that. the
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  last one of the last times i remember like properly getting
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  caught with someone like that was it was
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  a daytime lunch event like outside and
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  i was doing is this group of like tradesmen and
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  they're like really into the magic and i'm like great great a little
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  outspoken so i go to do card under watch and
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  i've loaded the the card and then i just the
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  guy's girlfriend's like oh okay cool all right we're watching yep
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  oh yep he's put the card under his watch okay and now he's
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  putting his hands together i'm like oh what you just
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  because she was just on a bad angle but she just said
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  it so what i did was not even drawing attention
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  i went in and re-stole the card out
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  and then i instead then did card from phone because i always have that ready
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  to go as a backup in card magic and i just didn't bring attention to it because
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  she was dead right she was like okay yep we're watching oh this is gonna be
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  oh yeah so there's a there's a counter and just watch and like she said it as
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  if like they're meant to know that as if like he's gonna
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  make him guess what the card is or whatever as if like that's the effect.
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  That they all saw that happen and so i just stole it out
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  so silly but it worked because people don't
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  know where you're going and people don't really care anyway they
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  just you know what i find interesting is
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  when you when like you do muscle pass and you'll say the
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  coin falls down that's the boring bit snap the fingers coin goes up
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  and they go i saw that i'm like you're fucking
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  supposed to oh yeah i love that like they think
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  they weren't meant to be able to catch the coin going
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  up yeah yeah and i say have you ever seen a coin fall up no well let me show
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  you oh i saw that i'm like what part of this interaction did you not get this
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  is where you say what what gut buster mike says oh you're pretty clever you
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  just say that no matter what they said,
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  yeah yeah or you make it a big deal like like a good big deal to them like oh
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  you palm oh you saw it high five man yeah you're so good get the out of here
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  you know like and then you make a follow-up joke yeah.
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  I'm gonna start doing that sometimes i like
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  the whole like i go what oh everyone stop blah's got
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  a theory on this everyone quiet because people do want to be seen by
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  nature it's like one of them i think yeah everyone quiet
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  blah's got something to say what you did what and everyone
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  looks at him like that's the dumbest shit i ever heard because it's always something dumb when that
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  person speaks right and then you just let them speak
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  and you let them have that moment and it's like this is great no no
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  you know what keep these coming because everyone loves a know-it-all yeah right
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  or you get everyone to give them a round of applause let's give someone
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  to a round of applause yeah yeah every time and
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  then they're basically like okay let's all clap so ladies
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  and gentlemen what you're hearing is our trauma okay we all
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  go through it but these are things that really do help you
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  just put a light on the person being funny and then uh like they realize okay
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  like yeah you're in control still next message is from lj our fellow guest of
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  the podcast friend in melbourne friend of the brisbane theater of magic he's
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  performed with us as well lj i can't even imagine what we're about to hear.
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  Hey, Magic guys. It's LJ here from Melbourne. Just wanted to give you a little
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  bit of an insight into the first gig I ever did, which also happens to be the
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  worst gig I've done so far.
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  Mostly because it was me at about 12 years old for my Italian teacher's son's third birthday.
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  I'd say conservatively 30, 40 kids in one small-ish living room and kitchen
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  area, screaming, running, grabbing my stuff from my case.
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  And it was not half an hour show that yeah, it was awful beyond belief.
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  Regardless, I got paid $50 cash for the show.
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  And then the Italian teacher asked me afterwards, if I could please fill in
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  for her cousin or something like that who didn't want to get into the Yoshi,
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  the dinosaur outfit and big mascot outfit because it was too hot and thought
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  that I would be a good person for that.
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  As a 12-year-old, I then proceeded to, on a 31-degree day, dance around with the kids.
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  And my handler, who was meant to look after me, yeah, proceeded to chat up another
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  one of the cousins and not look after me.
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  And I almost went to the hospital with heat stroke so yeah good gig that that's
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  the problem with italians they keep hitting on their cousins.
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  Well i've been in a costume or two in some pretty hot weather once or twice
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  i can relate to that you know hey you got to pay the bills and you want to keep the clients happy but,
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  This is where you get inspiration to get gooder as fast as you can.
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  So you don't have to do that too much.
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  Ooh, that sounds like a nightmare. I think that this is where you kind of have
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  that old ethos where if life's not a lesson, it's a test.
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  And he had a very big lesson and also was tested that you can't exist inside
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  of a thing for 31 degree days, which I don't know what the Fahrenheit is of
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  that. It'd be like 80, 90 degrees.
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  It's thereabouts. my first gig
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  was I did amusement park atmosphere performing pretty
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  big amusement park and they had costume characters and once
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  or twice I got in one of those things just to
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  have that experience and it is horrible even with
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  a well-maintained team you know you a
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  handler that doesn't abandon you and you've only got a couple
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  kids I can't imagine being in one like where
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  the trains off the tracks and you know you're not used
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  to it i did santa once for
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  my sister she was like we just need
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  someone to dress as santa she was it's part of like god and i think she was
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  when she was doing like what you call child care type stuff and it was all girls
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  that work in there we like we need a guy to come just put on the suit and come
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  be santa claus and i was like look i'll do it no problem so i do that they give
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  me the costume i put it on and i walk out and it was hilarious because the kids lose their mind.
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  It was like, I imagine that's like what the Beatles would have felt like.
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  Like you walk out on stage like Santa's here. Oh my God. And the kids are just losing their minds.
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  Like, I'm like, this is probably what it means to be a Beatle.
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  Fun fact, Kingred Spirit Scott Link worked that amusement park at the same time I did.
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  He was in the magic shop at Carowinds Amusement Park in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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  I bet you've been in a costume or two in your day, huh, Scott? Good times.
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  Going back about 30. Oh, God, how old am I?
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  I've had to perform in costume, like perform as a genie, for example,
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  or perform as a whatever.
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  Yeah. I've done that. Yeah. That can be challenging too, right?
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  Cause you're in a new character that you haven't developed and you know,
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  you're trying to interact and a unique persona, you know, now granted you two
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  are superstars, probably segue into that, you know, pretty naturally,
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  but if you haven't done it before.
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  Oh stop it well the
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  my costume days when i was 19 i
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  got casted to be on a tv show
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  a disney show called canine i'm sure
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  i've talked about this before this is before this is
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  during the phase of me really starting to learn magic but not
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  doing it in any performing capacity people can
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  look it up to canine i what i
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  had to be this robo cop but it's like a very funny
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  looking robo cop but we basically had to wear like a
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  motorbike helmet and complete leather in
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  australia and shoot all these outdoor scenes all
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  the time and i i just remember how much sweat would
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  get built up in the inside pads of this helmet and
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  you're just like this is not good but
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  you do it for the money and you know it was wonderful at the time and being
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  a 19 year old on a tv set and having six hours a day to practice sleight of
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  hand because you're not doing anything it's like honestly best time ever 100
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  um there's a if if anyone is deep diving and looking into this show canine it
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  aired in like every english-speaking country but there's an episode called,
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  birdie and birdie was a character of this robot that was malfunctioning,
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  And that was me.
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  So you can watch. Please find footage of this and put it on. Oh, yeah.
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  Please. Put it in your showreel. I should. Yeah.
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  I can be like, that's me. But I've got the IMDb credit and everything. So it counts, you know.
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  All right. Next one is from Thomas. Now he sent in two, but I'm just hoping
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  this is the story. This first one. Let's see how we go.
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  Thomas, ladies and gentlemen. what's up
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  cool guys message from france one of
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  the most terrible cringy story i've
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  ever experienced was with the
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  card stabbed i was using a knife and i
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  did a gag where i asked a spectator to put their hand
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  in the envelope and then i pretend to stab the to
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  stab the pack who's supposed to be under the envelope with
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  the knife that's supposed to be over the envelope and i
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  pretend to stab a few times and I test the
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  reflexes and then I asked the spectator and
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  I and I put the knife on the envelope and I
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  asked the woman is the is your
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  finger underneath it's not underneath and she said no no it's not
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  underneath and then I press and she screamed and
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  she couldn't get over it for like 90 minutes and she was like he stopped me
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  on the finger she had no trace but she couldn't get over it and I was like I
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  asked you very clearly is your finger underneath and she was I thought it was
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  a joke I thought it was a fake knife I said Why in the world would you think
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  it was a fake knife? Why would you think that?
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  And then she moaned and cried for hours See, it was terrible I felt terrible.
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  Holy crap Man Yeah That's about as bad as it gets Oh man Okay,
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  now I really want to hear his follow-up message Because I feel like,
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  That was crazy. Is there a part two? Let's have a look. I think there's a part two.
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  All right, I got another one for you. Oh, my God, there's another one.
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  When I do the sponge bunnies, okay, don't judge me. I sometimes do the sponge bunnies.
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  I ask the kid, I say, do you know this trick where you put a lady in a box and you cut her in half?
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  And the punchline is, we're not going to do that, but we're going to cut the bunny in half.
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  But since it's a magic bunny, it makes two bunnies. But I asked this little
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  girl at a parlor show, okay, so there are 30 people, and I'm going to get cute,
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  but I asked the little girl, hey, do you know this trick where you put a little
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  girl inside a box and you cut her in half?
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  And she starts bawling for 10 minutes, impossible to stop.
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  She cried for like half an hour. Horrible.
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  What? Oh, dude. What trauma has she gone through that just made her cry at you asking that question?
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  Some kids can be like, I, I once did a thing at my residency,
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  it was like a 10 year old birthday party.
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  And I do lucky lady bug for the birthday girl to give her a little something
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  special and make her the star of the show.
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  And I did that for like, spent some time with her, did that for her and everyone
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  else lost it and started crying because I wasn't giving them attention.
• 22:11
  Like that's, that's how it went down. Like the parents. I have a,
• 22:14
  I have a hypothesis that the child saw a magician stab her mother with a knife.
• 22:20
  And so now she's terrified of all the magicians.
• 22:25
  I think that's it. Yeah. He, that was the mother in the first story.
• 22:29
  How do you recover from that? Other than sending them like a bunch of flowers,
• 22:34
  some chocolates and some band-aids. That's, that's what I would do.
• 22:37
  Man, you can't stab a spectator. you can
• 22:41
  have you seen the newsreel there was a guy who put a newscaster's hand
• 22:44
  right through the spike like jammed her right into
• 22:47
  it live on television he has the best hair as well it's amazing i would say
• 22:54
  this that we have to be as careful as possible because that is the frame of
• 23:00
  mind that our audience is in that that they think that we wouldn't put them in danger,
• 23:07
  we shouldn't put them in danger,
• 23:10
  Alex is putting a comment this could be like the new Kill Bill movie and the
• 23:13
  plot is Girl Gets Revenge on Magician that sawed her mom in half,
• 23:18
  I mean, in the United States, I don't know how things go down in France,
• 23:21
  but it's like, oh, thanks for stabbing me because now you have a lawsuit and
• 23:25
  I have your house. You know, that's what it would be.
• 23:28
  Americans are massive on lawsuits, hey? Is that still the case?
• 23:32
  I hope so. It's my only hope for having great wealth in this country is to trip and fall somewhere.
• 23:39
  Dude, there's billboards of just like, hey, did you hurt yourself doing existing?
• 23:45
  It's literally ridiculous. Let me take someone for you. There's literal billboards
• 23:49
  on that whenever we land in Vegas. There's professionals.
• 23:52
  We have pros to just do that. That's crazy. Did you get a splinter playing on
• 23:56
  a playground? Let's sue the council. Like, yeah.
• 24:00
  Hey, can I give my work a plug briefly? And I did. Can I do that?
• 24:05
  Of course I can. Do whatever.
• 24:06
  So this is the, if you're enjoying these stories, look what I brought home from
• 24:10
  Trick Supply to do a little homework.
• 24:13
  This is abracadamut. This is Disaster Stories and Life Lessons from the World's Top Magicians.
• 24:22
  Fortunously, this book fell off the bookshelf, and I thought maybe I did so
• 24:27
  so that some of you would know about it. Who's in here?
• 24:31
  Scott Alexander, Jeff Hobson, Josh Jay, Mack King's section's wonderful,
• 24:37
  Jeff McBride, Ose Perlman is in this book, Rob Zabrecki.
• 24:42
  And if we need extra time, I could talk about this book more,
• 24:45
  but you could go to Trick Supply and learn more about it.
• 24:48
  This has been a semi-plug and a public service announcement.
• 24:51
  If you're enjoying tonight's stream, abracadammit, make a nice little book to
• 24:56
  put in your third room or on an airplane or something like that.
• 25:01
  Did I say Ben Zabin? Is that who wrote that? Yeah, Ben Zabin. It's a great read.
• 25:06
  It's kind of inspirational, and the disaster stories are only about a third of each volume.
• 25:11
  So all of the magicians have something positive to say, really good information in here.
• 25:17
  That's an interesting read. I'd get around that. Yeah, there we go.
• 25:21
  I was putting a book up on the shelf, and this went like this in my hand,
• 25:25
  and I was like, oh, this is our subject this week.
• 25:27
  Literally just something, one of those weird things that happens.
• 25:31
  I'm enjoying reading it. Maybe you will too. Yeah.
• 25:34
  And from last week, Doug, did you notice any Mylar card sales?
• 25:40
  Let's shout out to Seth Howard. He bought some of the Mylar cards to use.
• 25:46
  I mean, he said he has a gift exchange gig.
• 25:51
  So it's a Christmas gift exchange, or an ornament exchange, and he was looking
• 25:57
  for an opener. Yo, Seth, thanks for the purchase.
• 26:01
  Look at us making money for a trick supply.
• 26:04
  Eight bucks for the pond. That's epic. That's epic. All right,
• 26:09
  our next big pipe comes from Timothy.
• 26:12
  Timothy with a little fancy E. So he's already above me, above my pay wage.
• 26:18
  But Timothy, let's see what story you have for us today. I wonder where he's from. Maybe France.
• 26:22
  It wasn't my worst gig ever, but it was the first I had in my life.
• 26:28
  I was 16. I only knew magic for two years. I only knew magic trick with cards,
• 26:35
  and I was very shy at the time.
• 26:37
  But someone of my family said, oh, you could do some magic for a dinner and go on all the tables.
• 26:44
  I said, yeah, why not? So I went with it. And I did magic.
• 26:49
  The people were quite drunk. On the second group, I went to see with the table.
• 26:56
  I was putting my deck of cards on the table and speaking a little bit.
• 27:01
  And someone picked the glass of wine he had in his hand and threw it all over
• 27:08
  the table on my cards and said, hey, magician, can you fix it? And he went laughing.
• 27:15
  And then everyone in the tables around him just laughed out loud.
• 27:22
  So I didn't know what to say. It was emulating. and I just picked my deck of
• 27:30
  cards that was just wet and destroyed.
• 27:33
  I went to the place where I had my cards. I picked a new deck of cards and I
• 27:42
  didn't say anything. I didn't know how to react. It was my first gig.
• 27:47
  Your first gig? And you already had a second deck ready. That's a professional right there.
• 27:54
  Well, yeah, anything that can happen will. That is also like the most French insult like...
• 28:02
  For a magician as well that's a that's
• 28:09
  a pretty brazen moment like uh i would take
• 28:11
  that personal almost although you got
• 28:14
  it depends again where where are you you got to
• 28:17
  stay professional about it but man i
• 28:21
  would give it to him i would put the cards in the wine glass
• 28:24
  and give it to him as a gift and go i go
• 28:27
  now i uh you know i gift this to you and i'll get myself a fresh deck and end
• 28:32
  the interaction right there and just walk away like as with as little words
• 28:36
  as possible yeah i might give him the little bit of this and put him in a chokehold
• 28:44
  and body slam through the table.
• 28:47
  That sucks well i think he handled it great is the first thing and yeah look
• 28:52
  some people some people behave like that and we can't be responsible for everyone's
• 28:56
  behavior but i think that i'll give him an applause on that one i think that
• 28:59
  was handled perfectly well done.
• 29:03
  Yeah yeah yeah you could have just gone oh that's fine let me get you another
• 29:09
  glass of wine and then dip your dick in the wine and say drink up.
• 29:19
  Yeah that it is going to happen where maybe not
• 29:22
  that because that was super intentional but you know people just shuffle and
• 29:25
  the cards will explode and go everywhere and the floor is disgusting so you
• 29:28
  can't recover or they will or you know the stupidest one is where they you give
• 29:34
  them the deck to shuffle and they're like okay and they sit it on their wet
• 29:37
  table and they go to fricking casino,
• 29:40
  shuffle them and the cards are dead.
• 29:43
  Yeah. And, but that's the lesson. Have a second deck of cards. You just got it.
• 29:49
  Well handled and thank you for the voice message it's great to
• 29:51
  hear your accent too that was that made the story even more fun
• 29:54
  keep them coming our next one
• 29:57
  this came in just like half an
• 30:00
  hour before the pod uh a friend on instagram but also he competed in fism international
• 30:07
  touring magician from norway performs at the castle it's rune carlson everyone
• 30:13
  rune has sent in a message and thank you for doing that, Rune.
• 30:17
  And we're going to listen to your message.
• 30:20
  I can't wait to hear this story. So my name is Rune Karlsson.
• 30:23
  I'm a professional magician from Norway.
• 30:25
  And at one of my corporate gigs many years ago, everything was going just perfect.
• 30:29
  The audience was on fire, laughing, clapping, totally engaged.
• 30:33
  The feedback was incredible and my close show that night was Bill in Lemon,
• 30:37
  a routine that slowly builds suspense as the audience begins to realize the
• 30:41
  impossible ending they're about to witness. I was in the zone,
• 30:44
  really milking the moment.
• 30:46
  The timing was perfect. The reactions were huge. I took out the lemon,
• 30:50
  I handed it to someone to cut it open.
• 30:53
  And as I slowly opened it to reveal the big finale, there was nothing inside.
• 30:59
  So for a few seconds, my world just collapsed and stopped. Thousands of thoughts
• 31:03
  raced through my head. My heart was pounding. My face was sweating.
• 31:07
  Pure panic. What happened? I mean, where was the bill?
• 31:10
  Did I really just mess it up for the first time? But as we all know,
• 31:14
  experience kicks in when we need it the most.
• 31:17
  Having performed that effect probably thousands of times, I somehow managed to land it.
• 31:21
  I improvised, I kept in control, and in the end, I'm pretty sure the audience
• 31:27
  never even noticed it. I think, or I at least hope.
• 31:31
  Still, I've never been that stressed in my entire career, and hopefully I'll
• 31:36
  never experience that again. Anyway, it's a fun story.
• 31:40
  Yeah that is a fun story have you
• 31:43
  guys ever opened a bit a lemon and not had the
• 31:46
  reveal inside first show back from the
• 31:49
  pandemic i'm doing a street show my first street show back
• 31:52
  outside after being locked up for a year i go
• 31:55
  to retrieve the card in the wallet which is my finale for
• 31:58
  the multiple selection and realize that i forgot to
• 32:01
  palm the card into the wallet but i thought i had for some
• 32:03
  reason i go in there and as i'm opening the wallet i'm
• 32:06
  like there is nothing in here and i build it up there's money
• 32:09
  in the wallet it's a hat pitch for me and it's like and nothing's
• 32:14
  inside holy cow that's awkward relatable not
• 32:18
  as relatable as bill and the lemon though oh man that's
• 32:21
  a that's a definitely dramatic moment nick remember
• 32:25
  when we had well remember the story brennan dooley has i
• 32:28
  mean he has said on the podcast as well but he does bill
• 32:31
  to crunchy and he just he had
• 32:34
  hit his head earlier that day like it was bleeding from his forehead and from
• 32:38
  all of that small concussion and just trying to get ready for the show and not
• 32:43
  bleed he didn't do what he needed to do and on stage when they snap that crunchy
• 32:48
  there's nothing inside and he's like nothing.
• 32:52
  Shit it's unfortunate
• 32:55
  yeah i'm i'm waiting for the day
• 32:58
  where i forget to or i grab the wrong drink or
• 33:01
  something and i do my reveal of the inside being different and
• 33:04
  i'm waiting for the day where i i forget to do that and it's like
• 33:06
  i pour out v from a v can nick is
• 33:11
  asking how did he land that plane i had
• 33:13
  nick uh chris randall in the shop a week or
• 33:16
  two ago he's a award-winning magician a professional
• 33:19
  in las vegas he created the inception routine
• 33:23
  which a lot of performers use it's commercially
• 33:26
  available and he mentioned a story actually where
• 33:29
  that happened to him once and i guess his method is a secret load in the bag
• 33:33
  where he had missed the load somehow so as he's opening the lemon and there's
• 33:37
  nothing there he said what he did is simply pretend that there was something
• 33:42
  there you know just act like it was in there and keep portraying the moment and believe it himself.
• 33:47
  And then as he put the other piece of the limit away, he secretly acquired the
• 33:51
  bill and then pretended to reveal it from within.
• 33:55
  That's an avenue in a story that I was just recently told, a similar story,
• 34:00
  and leave it to a street performer to figure out everything that can happen in a trick.
• 34:05
  But that's the answer. You can just pretend it's in there and go from there.
• 34:11
  That's genius. I mean, yeah, if you were just openly bold like it worked, like, yeah.
• 34:17
  Well, just bring it home. I mean, if there's no other bill around, now you have problems.
• 34:25
  Didn't the Dove Act do that many years ago where it wasn't loaded on him or
• 34:29
  something and then he just pretended like they were there?
• 34:31
  He just acted as if they were and just did the whole routine that way?
• 34:34
  I've heard that story, right?
• 34:37
  Yeah, I heard a story of that nature. I don't recall who it was, though.
• 34:41
  Like maybe the birds didn't make it to the show.
• 34:45
  I don't know. Yeah. How would you not know that there's birds not on your person?
• 34:49
  Like that is a fascinating. Speaking of birds, tomorrow I'm going to the All
• 34:54
  Stars of Magic review. Playing at Hollywood.
• 34:58
  Jason Byrne headlining this. I'm pretty sure he does his bird act in there. Mandre is in the show.
• 35:04
  Joseph Gabriel is in the lineup this week. Get away.
• 35:09
  Emily England's in the show. that's me
• 35:12
  tomorrow let's go say hi
• 35:15
  i'm hoping i can see three bird acts how spectacular would
• 35:18
  that be dan we like
• 35:21
  never see them in australia anymore no it wasn't for dance fairy touring with
• 35:26
  the illusionist probably no one would have ever seen one exist there's only
• 35:29
  two other people i can think of there's jonas what's his surname yeah yeah jonas
• 35:35
  yost yep he's got he's got a beautiful act.
• 35:39
  And I guess Elio Simonetti, he has a dove act as well. And that would be it.
• 35:44
  I mean, Anthony DeMazzi has one, but it's from props. It's not like a dove act.
• 35:48
  Like he'll produce it from things.
• 35:49
  Have y'all seen Jason Burns act? You seen what he does with birds?
• 35:54
  No. Oh my. And Mondray.
• 35:57
  He is one of my favorite Las Vegas performers for sure. He's got just a killer act.
• 36:04
  He uses cats in his act of all things. What?
• 36:09
  I can see why you like it. Can you imagine? Yeah, of course I like it.
• 36:14
  How is that not the most viral video on social media? If it's like...
• 36:19
  It's not out there. I don't know.
• 36:21
  Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'll film it tomorrow and make him a viral sensation.
• 36:26
  It would take over the planet.
• 36:28
  Like, that's already over.
• 36:31
  Yeah. Like the cat in a magic act? Talking about things that can go wrong.
• 36:36
  I bet he's got a story or three.
• 36:38
  You know, you see some of these acts. I don't know like where this happens,
• 36:42
  but I've seen these cats do like amazing acts.
• 36:45
  They're like, they run around the stage and they're climbing up and down on things.
• 36:49
  They jump through hoops and stuff. And I'm like, who says you can't train a cat?
• 36:52
  Hmm. Well, not Mondra. Well, you can train tigers, right? Lions and tigers.
• 36:58
  I mean, Siegfried and Roy did it.
• 37:00
  It must be a little easier training a feline cat as opposed to something that's
• 37:04
  got the power. Yeah, you can do it.
• 37:07
  There's cat shows. I'd love to see one. There is an animal show in town I'm
• 37:11
  actually looking forward to. I think it's in the same complex.
• 37:14
  I don't know. I intend to see a lot of shows this week. Probably going to see Penn and Teller again.
• 37:19
  Got the mother-in-law coming in town tomorrow, so we're going to run around
• 37:22
  like tourists for the next week.
• 37:25
  How fun is that? It sounds fun. I miss that. what a cool thing when you have
• 37:28
  people come to visit you're in Vegas so like it's the you gotta be like the
• 37:32
  most fun yeah family member to come and visit that's that's cool,
• 37:38
  next voice message is from a friend of ours called Eric let's see what he's
• 37:44
  got here just a first name Eric he must be a mime I love this act,
• 37:54
  let's try again.
• 37:58
  Maybe he's doing it like a category i just realized one
• 38:01
  time it's been needed this whole time all men
• 38:05
  okay this whole time i thought you guys were being rude and talking over the
• 38:10
  message because i can hear it so i'm like it is said before the podcast i will
• 38:16
  remind we will remind you we do this live we do this live on spotify yeah they
• 38:21
  won't hear it because it would have cut out that dead time anyway.
• 38:24
  I'm going to play Eric's message again. Here we go.
• 38:29
  Hi guys, I'm Eric. I'm currently a magician in college, and I study mechanical
• 38:34
  engineering at the University of Illinois.
• 38:37
  And one of my worst stories was when I was performing for the university at a show.
• 38:44
  I was doing Wes Izely's foot, the same one that he did on Penn & Teller.
• 38:51
  And the person in my prediction in the middle of the show just stood up and left.
• 38:59
  So it was super awkward because I couldn't say anything as they were leaving.
• 39:05
  And I was just watching them as my heart just sank.
• 39:09
  I ended up picking a random winner and then doing a pickpocket routine with them.
• 39:15
  But it was definitely one of my worst moments in a performance.
• 39:22
  So yeah, that's my story. And oh, also, I do have a question too.
• 39:27
  I'm the president of the Magic Society
• 39:30
  at my school and I was wondering if
• 39:34
  you got any of you guys would be willing to meet
• 39:37
  meet with us whether over zoom or if
• 39:40
  you're nearby in person and be like a guest speaker or something for our meetings
• 39:45
  that would be really wonderful because we do have a couple magicians here who
• 39:49
  love to meet you guys and talk to you guys so yeah way sneaking in that the
• 39:56
  sneaky ask at the end of the voice message. I like it.
• 39:59
  Look, a thousand bucks, Eric, and anything's possible. All right,
• 40:02
  man. I'm done doing public performances. Sorry, you're daily.
• 40:06
  I'm wrapping this shtick up. Oh, but look, Eric. We can do a little lecture.
• 40:12
  Well, you know, we can do the little online lecture or something of that nature.
• 40:16
  I've done that for clubs over whatever.
• 40:19
  So yes, just reach out to us through our socials and we'll do something to add
• 40:23
  a little value to your club, buddy. It's all part of the community.
• 40:27
  Did you just throw the buddy like that? All right, little buddy.
• 40:30
  Like the, um, what do they call it? I'm trying to create a community here through the podcast.
• 40:36
  This is a good community where we take care of each other and we help each other.
• 40:39
  When someone says help, you say help.
• 40:42
  When I can. Hell yeah. No, no, I'm like, no, just, it sounded like you threw
• 40:46
  out a, um, a little power move there. Yeah. We'll help you a little university.
• 40:52
  Eric, reach out, reach out, man. Always happy to zoom.
• 40:55
  Nick has a sick lecture, which he just said, he's happy to donate all his time
• 40:58
  and send all the props for everyone to take part in it. That's awesome.
• 41:02
  So kind of unique, but, but yo, but the story. So for people who don't know flipped,
• 41:07
  it's the, the coin right it's the heads and tails with the whole audience and
• 41:12
  everyone's guessing either heads or tails they're sitting down as you're flipping
• 41:16
  it and you've predicted the last person like what they're wearing and everything
• 41:20
  and to see that person walk out mid-routine.
• 41:24
  That's got to put the sweats on like that's pretty
• 41:27
  upsetting like is here's a
• 41:29
  silly idea like if the revelation were in
• 41:33
  something as simple as a envelope would
• 41:36
  it make sense to have like a two-way envelope and then that way you have a kind
• 41:40
  of redundancy where you've got two possibilities so you just just a little something
• 41:45
  to save you perhaps mark brown said it in the chat always have a backup prediction
• 41:50
  for that trick i learned that the hard way as well.
• 41:54
  So okay so this is a thing second one
• 41:56
  ready to go so it is a thing that can come
• 41:59
  up more often than you might think or because
• 42:02
  i've also heard this i've also heard that sometimes the person
• 42:06
  playing will just sit down because they just don't want
• 42:09
  to have any attention like it's getting close to
• 42:12
  them being some of the last in the running and they'll just sit down so that's
• 42:19
  that can be true as well so yeah that's got to be the answer hey have an extra
• 42:24
  prediction out the other thing that like in my head what i might have tried is,
• 42:29
  is if it's just that one person starting to walk out, you could be like,
• 42:36
  hey you, are you leaving?
• 42:39
  Did I tell you to leave? Did we set this up in any way? No?
• 42:42
  Well, look at this. I predicted that the person that was leaving would be wearing a red blah, blah, blah.
• 42:48
  And I would just miscall like the title of what this prediction is and then
• 42:52
  just call out everything he's wearing.
• 42:54
  Like maybe that's, because that actually is quite a miracle too.
• 42:57
  Like, how did he know that he would decide to leave mid-routine,
• 43:02
  you know? That could be kind of funny.
• 43:06
  But otherwise, like, I think he handled it pretty well. Like,
• 43:09
  just don't draw attention.
• 43:10
  Because that's the other powerful thing we have here is that people don't know what the effect is.
• 43:14
  So, if you just whittle it down to one person winning and that person now just
• 43:18
  gets to come up for an effect, then that's the dream.
• 43:22
  Or like Scotty says, just put him in a lemon. Put him in a lemon.
• 43:25
  Makes no sense. but uh it's funny getting
• 43:29
  a lemon no yeah but yeah that's a tough place to be and you know it's a really
• 43:38
  good thought like like so one example two hours but how do you even get two
• 43:42
  hours you'd have to just pivot the whole routine safely right yeah,
• 43:47
  Yeah, I think, yeah, you just got it, right?
• 43:50
  I think, Eric, I think you handled it pretty well, it sounds like.
• 43:54
  Because I too would be kind of freaking out, like, damn it, what am I going
• 43:58
  to do here, kind of thing.
• 43:59
  You should have some resolution that doesn't depend on that exact situation.
• 44:04
  So, I don't know what it is, and maybe it's not even a finale to an effect,
• 44:08
  but at the end of it, you could say,
• 44:11
  you know, and that's how we demonstrate how random things can be,
• 44:16
  and now you're the last one standing.
• 44:19
  If you could just name any card. Oh, how interesting.
• 44:22
  It's the only card upside down in my deck.
• 44:26
  What if you are using the flip to have an outcome where you can go to that one
• 44:32
  person and maybe you want to force an outcome of,
• 44:35
  let's say you said, we're going to describe the perfect woman or something and
• 44:40
  you can say, okay, so I like redheads.
• 44:43
  What do you like? You know, this, boom. and you can just, and then you can have
• 44:47
  that outcome force with that one person, you still got the same outcome,
• 44:51
  but it's not, you know, it's there in the same vein.
• 44:55
  It's got to be very long, lots of flipping though. That's the problem.
• 44:58
  Tricky stuff, but it's better than stabbing your spectator. Yeah,
• 45:03
  don't stab your spectators. I know you're whiner, but don't.
• 45:09
  Alex, Alex Lan, we know he's in the chat and he's also in our speak pipes today.
• 45:15
  I know this story already and i got to hear
• 45:18
  it in real time when it had actually happened but i got him to tell the story
• 45:21
  here too it's kind of funny for anyone who's like because alex has been doing
• 45:25
  magic for a long time as a hobby because he has his own full-time career and
• 45:29
  this year i've really seen him gun into really making an effort to do private
• 45:34
  gigs and this happened you know,
• 45:38
  a few months into really trying to give it a go.
• 45:42
  So what I think happened is, oh, that's the end. Let me give you the start.
• 45:46
  Started in the middle there.
• 45:47
  Hey guys, I'm going to try to get this short. Just for context.
• 45:51
  Star Casino, Steakhouse, Private Function Room, and they're paying quite a bit
• 45:56
  for not allowed time, so I'm trying to bring my A game.
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  I do my opener, nothing. It's like this long rectangular table,
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  probably 20 people. I do my opener at the head of the table, nothing.
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  I've gone around the table as the night goes on, nothing.
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  They're being really polite. they're saying wow that was pretty good hey
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  you're good but like no laughs no energy nothing
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  so i'm just like oh my god this sucks so i'm
• 46:20
  i'm packing up my time's up the lady who hired me is like look that's just how
• 46:25
  they are the fact that you got that much out of them that's your win i was like
• 46:28
  okay cool so i'm in the camp home she i text her i was like hey if you could
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  leave me a review that'd be really great and here's the link she calls me back
• 46:37
  alex you have my husband's phone,
• 46:40
  and sure enough my close-up bag starts buzzing and i was mortified i was like panicky sweats,
• 46:48
  so i turn around and i'm walking into
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  the casino i'm just like how am i gonna play this because you know i might get
• 46:55
  punched in the face so i walk back into their room the only thing i could think
• 46:58
  of to do i hold up their phone and i say ta-da they erupt in laughter the biggest
• 47:04
  reactions I got all night by far and I was just kind of like,
• 47:09
  I guess that's where I'm going to get my laugh so what did I learn number one
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  take your wins where you can get them I don't believe in making a fool of yourself
• 47:19
  all the time just to get a laugh but sometimes that's the way the cookie crumbles.
• 47:24
  Two you can't win them all we've all been somewhere where we're trying to win
• 47:28
  over somebody stubborn or a cynic and it's just not worth it so move on to someone
• 47:33
  who actually wants to see you and three know what goes back in your close-up
• 47:38
  bag before you leave that's what i learned cheers guys,
• 47:43
  great yeah wow what a roller
• 47:46
  coaster you're not getting any attention and then
• 47:48
  you leave and somehow you got the client's husband's phone
• 47:51
  and then you're like oh what the hell wow that's the funny thing
• 47:54
  they like and damn i mean
• 47:57
  talking about like you know being accused of
• 48:00
  doing a thing like you know we've had a few friends
• 48:03
  on now that have mentioned ring stories right like where they've
• 48:06
  done ring flight and then they've accused them
• 48:09
  of not giving their real ring back and like we're almost out of time but we
• 48:13
  had a friend message in saying that all they did was ask to borrow a ring from
• 48:18
  someone and then someone said oh my god where is my ring and made a whole big
• 48:22
  deal and like threatened this magician like hadn't even been near the guy.
• 48:28
  These rings are and and now phones phones
• 48:31
  too oh my god where's my phone but he
• 48:34
  actually did take it so alex you actually did and they
• 48:37
  could sue you and they could own the whole school that you work at
• 48:39
  but fortunately you're not in the u.s so that's
• 48:43
  a good lesson have you
• 48:46
  ever i mean and like i'm sure people have pickpocketed and
• 48:50
  just forgotten to give the watch back right like nick do you have a story like
• 48:53
  that i think i we know something right about criticisms and people like i've
• 48:59
  vanished their phone and then it appears in my my wallet is in effect but then
• 49:04
  i've had people come back at me saying that I scammed money from them.
• 49:08
  And I was like, well, prove it because the venue that I work at won't employ me until you do that.
• 49:13
  And all they said was that we're going to file a police report.
• 49:16
  And I'm like, well, where's the police report? And just the threat was enough
• 49:19
  to take me out of work for three weeks. That cost me thousands of dollars.
• 49:22
  So then I had my lawyer email them directly. And I was like,
• 49:26
  I want their details. These people are fucked with my livelihood.
• 49:28
  And I went for them and they shat themselves, which is, in my opinion,
• 49:33
  the right thing to do because like you can make claims that you're gonna you're
• 49:37
  gonna karen but if you're not gonna like.
• 49:40
  Yeah so wait a minute i don't have to rely on trip
• 49:43
  and falls i can rely go for slanders too
• 49:46
  right well if i get a bad review i could call my lawyer yeah too or or doug
• 49:52
  you go to a hypnosis show uh because you can blame something bad you do on the
• 49:59
  fact that you're hypnotized i was talking to a hypnotist and i won't mention
• 50:03
  names because you're not meant to do this but on cruises.
• 50:07
  Entertainers aren't the like number one rulers performers can't
• 50:11
  sleep with the guests on the cruise but back
• 50:14
  when this guy was young that's just what everyone did they just didn't
• 50:17
  talk about it i guess and this this he
• 50:20
  had this woman like just pleading with him
• 50:23
  like please let me sleep with you what a what a
• 50:26
  problem so he's like all right so he
• 50:29
  gets they you know they have a nice night second night
• 50:33
  rolls around she does it again please let me you know
• 50:35
  stay in your room and he's like no anyway she kicks up a fuss and she now complains
• 50:42
  to security that he hypnotized me to sleep with him so i mean he had to then
• 50:49
  be detained in the cruise ship area wherever that is,
• 50:54
  please come on board oh my they
• 50:57
  go to interview the woman and as soon as
• 51:00
  they hear her say he hypnotized me to sleep with him they just lost their shit
• 51:04
  laughing they're like what are you talking about you you can't tell me that
• 51:08
  he may he may oh like it was so funny they like fully made fun of her for her
• 51:14
  because she didn't she like had just you know been annoyed that she and get that second night.
• 51:21
  Narcissists, man. Yeah. That's crazy. And they will say the worst things to get what they want.
• 51:28
  That's crazy. So you could do that, Doug, is what I'm saying.
• 51:32
  Yeah, I know, Doug. I'm making notes. I've got options now.
• 51:35
  My financial future is looking bright.
• 51:38
  Yeah, yeah. Anyway, look, that was awesome. You know, something I want to try
• 51:43
  and keep doing too, guys. Thank you for sending in your speak pipes.
• 51:46
  It's always fun to hear from you guys, even if we only play one an episode or something like that.
• 51:51
  If you're listening to this, send a speak pipe in just to introduce yourself
• 51:56
  and let us know a little bit about maybe something you're working on the moment
• 52:00
  or doing recently or a thought you have.
• 52:02
  Because what I'd like to be able to do is start every episode by hearing from
• 52:06
  one of our friends listening to the pod.
• 52:09
  So feel free to send a bunch in so we have them loaded up.
• 52:13
  The next couple of weeks, we have some guests coming on, so that's going to be super exciting.
• 52:18
  But we always want to hear from you because that's what makes this fun,
• 52:21
  what keeps it alive, you know?
• 52:24
  Yeah. But so we're coming towards the end. So, Doug, you are going to be off in a host.
• 52:30
  You're going to be a host for the next week or so.
• 52:32
  Yeah, but look, you told me if Eric Juhasz is the guest next Monday,
• 52:37
  I might be a rude host and jump in here.
• 52:39
  So I may or may not be here next week. But I'd love also to be enjoying family
• 52:44
  time and being a good husband and a good son-in-law.
• 52:48
  So I missed Eric's first visit and I love his book so much.
• 52:53
  I don't want to miss another one. So, uh, we'll see.
• 52:56
  We're talking about the practice playbook guys. I am about three quarters of the way through it.
• 53:01
  I intend on finishing it by the time we have the interview. I've got to say
• 53:04
  that I think this is like one of the top five books that every beginner magician must have.
• 53:10
  I think it's awesome. It's important. It's important.
• 53:13
  It's like so good. It's so good. And it's all about how to rehearse and how
• 53:18
  to practice and how to structure.
• 53:19
  I think like if I had to say top two books, it would be Maximum Entertainment and this.
• 53:26
  Like it's unreal guys. I've just finished last night. I read a few chapters,
• 53:31
  Andy Glamour and Joshua Jay's ones were back to back.
• 53:34
  And Joshua Jay's one is so good.
• 53:37
  Like it's so good. Let me say that this book is not dissimilar.
• 53:40
  I mean, it focuses on disaster stories in some respect, but here we have 20-ish
• 53:45
  magicians with opening with very inspirational talks about how they developed
• 53:51
  and advice and not trying to plug products.
• 53:54
  But if you have Eric's book and like it and want something else in the ballpark for 20 bucks.
• 54:00
  I'll be grabbing that next time I pass through. That's for sure.
• 54:03
  Because I love these compilation books.
• 54:05
  There's nothing but there's no waffle. like it's
• 54:08
  people's individual stories and it's just straight up gold spat
• 54:12
  into a book and that'll be a quick read on the flight home so
• 54:15
  yeah yeah it's like that well how
• 54:18
  about we do this doug could could we for the final words could
• 54:21
  you read one of the stories give us one of the stories from the book maybe
• 54:24
  is that can we do that do you want a minute to think of one because i have a
• 54:28
  story if we want to kill two minutes while you look fine like i'll tell you
• 54:31
  like the brekkies is a good one hell yeah i'll yeah i'll talk about rob's story
• 54:37
  let me lead you in here we go with the final word.
• 54:42
  So here we are, we're doing life lessons from Abracadamia.
• 54:46
  And one of my favorite performers of the current Active Pros,
• 54:52
  Rob Zabrecki, has a great story
• 54:54
  in here about where he accepted a gig to perform for a bunch of pilots.
• 54:59
  A bunch of pilots who were expecting, among other things, dancing girls at their company party.
• 55:07
  And just how rough of an audience it was. zero response, literally zero,
• 55:14
  like looking at you like, why are you even here?
• 55:17
  They're anticipating the girls to come into the room.
• 55:20
  And yeah, just a nightmare. And as you can imagine.
• 55:24
  So Rob's advice is this, just, you know, know who you are, know what you do,
• 55:29
  and just know when to say no.
• 55:33
  But hey, say yes to the Magic Guys every Monday or Tuesday if you're in Australia.
• 55:38
  We'll see you guys next week.
• 55:42
  Thanks for listening it's time for us to disappear now disappear now but we'll
• 55:48
  see you again on the next episode of the magic guys.