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Gig stories from our listeners! #223 · The Magic Guys

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Guys, they do magic. They are the Magic Guys.
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Ladies and gentlemen, let me start that again. Ladies and gentlemen,
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boys and girls, welcome to the Magic Guys.
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I'm Josh Norbedo, but to my left we have... I'm Nick Kay, and below me is the effervescent...
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Hey, I'm Doug Conn, and self-working magic is my kryptonite. What's happening?
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Nice. Nice. Self-working magic is... I did it wrong. Is it a problem?
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Give me a pass. Give me a side steal.
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I'm good. Give me a button to push. I'll screw it up every time.
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Yeah. Well, technology is bad. I hate relying on tech, like,
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you know, an electronic gimmick or something to work. That'll mess me up most times.
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Yeah look i think that electronics
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should be more like an icing on the cake as opposed to the entire
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method like for me one of the most terrifying routines is a color match i mean
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when that doesn't work totally there is no there is no safety net no parachute
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you just plow into the earth and it is over and that's what happens when you
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perform live like this show Magic Guys Live.
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Yeah, like us right now. Like my laptop crashing last week and luckily Nick
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and Doug saved the day and ended the episode.
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So if you were listening to that on Spotify and were like, why did that end
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so abruptly? That's why.
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It's because it's live and the audio is gone. But because we do it live,
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we have friends live watching in the chat. I can see we've got Scott Link,
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Thomas Conger, Dragoteer, Gary Davis.
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These are the OGs. Scotty P.
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We go back even further OG than that. We also got Caden. Look,
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this is great. Everyone's showing up. Adonis.
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Ah, I love it. So today I put out a call, a prompt for voice messages,
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your speak pipes to bring in.
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Tell us some gig stories. You know, you're out there in the trenches we want
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to hear how it's going and because also sometimes we're able to like save some
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of the best stories and relive them through telling them telling them on the pod right because.
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Oh, shit. Well, they...
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How did that even happen? It's live. What were you saying about it being live?
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They started a coup and they took me off the podcast for a second.
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But we're back. Enough out of you, Josh Nibito. Gone.
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I'm going to shut up. That's right. So, guys, gig stories is a segment of the
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show we kind of used to do on a regular basis in which we like to share stories
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either while performing or just our day-to-day life.
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And it's been a while since we've done them. And we have basically so many cool stories to tell.
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And so we put the call out to you guys on our socials going,
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hey, if you guys have cool gig stories, we want to hear all about it as well.
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And we have a whole bunch which you guys sent in.
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Hopefully there's enough time to get through all of them as well as sharing
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the ones that we've been up to this week.
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So Josh, should we line up our first speak pipe and gig story?
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Hell yeah. And can I also just set a prompt for the next weeks?
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Don't wait until I put a prompt out. Just send us in a speak pipe.
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We love hearing from you, and you can do that through the link below where you're
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listening to this, or just go
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to themagicguysshow.com, and you'll see the button to leave a recording.
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Our first speak pipe comes from Tim Raymond.
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Now, I haven't heard the full story, but I've heard the prompt,
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and I'm excited already.
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So let's hear what Tim got up to at his gig.
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So basically, I had a gig at Retirement Village on the weekend.
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And through email, we'd agreed it would be an hour of roving.
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So I assumed they would have tables set up and I would just move around between
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different groups and do some close-up effects with all of the residents.
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But upon arriving, they had it set up with rows of chairs and a space at the
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front, and I only had my close-up stuff with me, so I quickly had to figure
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out how I could make some of that play for a larger audience.
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So I did that, and then just spent 20 minutes at the end just kind of going
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from row to row, doing some different close-up stuff.
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All in all, it did go quite well, just threw me for a bit of a loop,
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but they said they'd have me back again. So, had a happy ending,
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albeit a bit of a stressful beginning.
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All right. Love the podcast, guys.
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Well, Tim. That was even in his recording. That wasn't me. Yeah.
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What happens with assumptions, Tim, is that assumptions make an ass out of you and me.
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And when we assume they're going to be doing things a certain way,
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it does turn out like that. That's why it's always important that when you ask
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about the location of it, you say, are you looking for a walk around?
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Is it going to be table seating?
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Ask those sorts of questions when you do that next inquiry. I do it all the
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time because I can't tell you how many times I've rocked up to gigs and they've
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gone like, oh, no, it's going to be like a seated thing. It's like,
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okay, well, you don't want roving.
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You want this. you know so it's like make sure that
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in the future that you find out all the details with regards
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locations i can't tell you how many times people have gone oh i
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got this gig yeah it's like 600 bucks blah blah can you do it for me i i can't
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do it i'm like sure and they go oh it's three hours out of town i'm like the
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fuck yeah it happens it's yeah yeah it's earlier on in your career you know
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yeah that's that's how you learn later i actually i have a relatable gig story a Vegas gig story.
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For me, I was going to work as a Las Vegas magic open mic.
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And my goal here was to film a performance for a Sponge Bunny release,
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which we had with Trick Supply.
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This was about two months ago or a month ago.
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So I made an agreement with the producer. They do a close-up set before the
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stage set, which is open mic, but the close-up set is formal.
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And that's what we agreed that I would be working and filming the Sponge Bunnies.
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Well, first of all, I get to the gig and realize I forgot the Sponge Bunnies at the house.
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So I send the wife back to get the purpose of being at this venue.
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Of course, see all the magic is fun.
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But then I get there and the guy's like, oh no, man, it's not close up.
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That's just for this guy. He's doing 30 minutes.
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You're going to need to put your name in the hat and be on stage.
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So boy, talk about flipping the tables. And especially when I'd planned to do
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a professional shoot of this product.
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But yeah, you learn as time goes on how to adapt your close-up routines to play bigger, right?
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So as opposed to, you know, having that formal close-up stage with everyone
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close, I brought a committee on stage with me and we performed our close-up
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magic for them and let the audience, you know, enjoy the magic.
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And it turned out pretty good, you know? We had some great audience reactions
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and everything worked out, but yeah. Yeah.
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And that's what I want to commend Tim for as well. The fact that you were able
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to pivot and work through that, that's the workings of a pro, man.
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And the fact that you were able to do that on the fly, you got to give yourself
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a pat on the back, brother, man.
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Take a lesson from this, everyone listening. If you do close up magic,
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think about at least a couple of routines that you can make play bigger than you generally do.
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If you're not sure how to go about that, let me recommend Stage by Stage by John Graham.
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This is one of my favorite books of the last decade he explains the
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process quite clearly there's some other
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good ones but uh yeah try and think how you can make your
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small tricks play this way if nothing else for when you find yourself in that
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situation i mean talking about small tricks playing big did you guys watch wilman's
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new special like we don't have to make an episode about it but wilman put out
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a magic lover, Netflix special.
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And it's very much shot like a standup special.
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And the thing that's most notable is almost all of the magic is super small
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magic, but just his delivery and writing gets all the laughs from the audience.
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But it's very much like a camera on him and he's borrowing someone's bill.
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You know, it's a lot of stuff like that throughout the whole thing.
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There's no illusions On stage Like.
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Well, that zip code routine is just verbiage, right?
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The whole zip code segment, which is a lot, and freaking unbelievable, is just words.
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And that's the thing. Yeah, when it comes to, like, the good thing about mentalism
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is that you don't have to be seen on a projector screen or whatever.
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Like, you can do that on a stage.
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And so yeah i encourage not that to say
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you're going to have a camera projecting you on screen at every gig that
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asks you to randomly get on stage but
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it's good to think in the way that you
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don't have to have these massive props if the client says at the very end oh
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do you mind doing one thing on stage to say goodbye to everyone or whatever
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these are common things that they'll throw in there you know okay right willman's
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out there killing it filling up these high-end theaters with this one-man low-tech
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show let me tell you i think he's not thankful,
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he's so good for magic he really is yeah yeah
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yeah yeah yeah that's gonna be good
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for magic what's the next speak pipe friends all right
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speak pipe speaking of speak pipe our next one is from adonis who's in the chat
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shout out the live chat let's go adonis now i gotta bring the volume down because
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his voice is so deep i love it here we go too low josh too low josh nope.
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Welcome to magic guys live that's right
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live on the internet that's that's actually
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my fault because i had him on mute the whole time so i've
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been listening to his sweet sweet nectar of a voice that
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whole time so i'm just gonna reopen up
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that speak pipe this is what i'm talking about
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tech okay imagine we're doing this live or
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something with people watching this to be horrible all right
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here we go hey guys
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adonis here a little a story about a gig that i had a couple weeks ago it was
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a community event i decided to test a couple new routines i've been working
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on one of them was a half-dye color-changing silk. Two things happened.
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First, the first transformation, the first color change, I messed up.
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Let the silk hanging before revealing the whole thing. So.
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There is more. Why is it not? After that, I'm explaining, I'm using the concept
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of I'm going to teach the trick.
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I'm teaching, I said I hide the red handkerchief in the hand and reveal there's
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nothing on it. It's vanished.
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Probably 10, 20 seconds later, one of the kids just have the reaction,
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the realization that the handkerchief was missing.
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I had to point it out. I basically look at the kid and say, I guess somebody's
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catching up. Thank you for the opportunity.
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Kids, huh? Kids, huh? They're the worst type of humans.
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Those mini humans? Yeah.
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They're like short guy syndrome, but worse. So he was doing the effect and he
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did the effect and the kids just didn't register that magic had happened.
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That's what I'm reading from this.
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You know what? depending on the age of the kid yeah well you
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know what it's like for me when it comes to kids the
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six-year-old brain is is like
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the perfect age and i
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think that anything below that can be a bit of a oh that's just how things work
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you know what i mean like everything's that's the issue right there yeah like
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everything's magical when you're a kid like you use a remote control whoa doing
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the tv on without having to get up and push a button you know what i mean like that sort of thing,
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that's where I feel it can kind of happen so there is a probably a level of
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conditioning and call and response that could combat that but hey like you made
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it through Adonis power to you yeah man what about adults like I'm sure we do
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stuff and every now and then you're like,
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Just so you know, that is impossible.
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It reminds me of the Ben Seidman opener, how he does the silk through microphone stand.
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And he's like, hello, this should not be able to go through this. Let me do it again.
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It's a funny bit, but in real life that can happen. Well, just further to your
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point, it says here that she was at least 10.
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And strangely, I think kids get dumber as they go towards their teens.
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And not because they are dumb, but because they become apathetic.
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By nature they get this attitude that like
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i'm a queen i'm a boss bitch i'm
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a this or that you know what i mean and it's sort of like what like and
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and i see it so regularly as i'm performing for for younger girls like it's
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insane and this happens and i'm just going to share this i know this sounds
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like really kind of awful but this is purely a report of what i experienced
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but it's like if i'm having someone choose a playing card if i say red or black
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no problem if i say let's So they say red.
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If I say heart or diamond, two options, no problem.
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I turn to the third person and say, there's 13 values. Choose a value,
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ace through 10, jack, queen, or king. They go, what?
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Like if it's too many options, they just go, ugh, and their brain shuts off.
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It is one of those things that is happening. So when what? When the brain shuts off?
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I make fun. And then I make it very simple and go, choose a number between one and 13.
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And they go that's what i do as well just pick a number just you know yeah and
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so yeah and i can't say many times i've said choosing between 10 and 35 7 10
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and 35 clever kid let's try it again,
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You know, like I've, I've, I've had moments like that with, with,
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with adult, man, adults do it too.
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Like, especially when you put them on the spot, I'll be like,
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yeah, I mean, the worst is like, name a number up to 10, 16.
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Great. Now let's try again where you think about it or like,
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you know, like it, it's everyone, but definitely the age younger and younger
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don't play with cars that much.
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Right. When we're young, I've mentioned this before. i'm sure i like
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to ask the child how old they are and use that as the number to represent the
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card if we're doing something like that any trick any card trick that involves
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a child you can use their age to represent the child themselves have them write
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on it it's now super uh you know identifiable.
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Yeah i would say what when um when the pandemic hit
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and school formals in australia started
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booking magicians or at least in queensland because they were
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allowed to have their formal but they couldn't have a dance floor
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so they booked magicians for almost every formal
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to fill that time and my
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god if there is a harder audience than 17 year olds that are dressed up which
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they've never been dressed up like before and they're trying to impress the
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date they're with and everything is about them and the whole time the girls
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and guys are taking selfies of themselves and then you're thrown in there to try and impress them.
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That, my friends, was the hardest lesson to learn back in 2020.
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I very quickly realized not a single thing can be about me or skill or watch this.
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It has to be, let's use your phone. Oh, should I know your pin code?
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Think of the first person you dated or it had to all purely be about them or
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you got like zero attention.
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And that's just what's going to happen when you meet certain audiences.
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But like, it's the same reason why it's so important to be dynamic because the
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way you talk to a six-year-old kid is going to be totally different to the way
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you talk to a 33-year-old person and everything in between.
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So it's so important to be dynamic in that sense and trying to get the focus
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of kids nowadays as well.
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You know what I mean? Like, I can't tell you how many folks are sitting there
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with whatever sensory overload things, they're chewing stuff.
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It's, it does become an issue, you know, and finding a way, a medium to connect
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to them and make sure that there is a communication transpiring between the
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two of you, you've got to be dynamic, man. It's a tough one.
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But I think that you handled it pretty well, Adonis, and you made your way out.
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But it is kind of fun when sometimes it doesn't hit.
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And it's not always going to be on you. Not always, but you've got to take some
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responsibility and do the best you can to make sure it lands.
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Yeah. All right. Our next one is from Aziz Magic.
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I'm not sure if he's in the chat, but he's definitely on the speak pipes.
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So let's hear what Adonis, Aziz Magic.
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Has gone in store for us. Okay, so I have to record this again. Hi, everyone.
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It's too long to record, like one minute. So, hi, my name is Aziz. I do magic.
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Since I was 14, I am in Saudi Arabia Riyadh.
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So, the long story short, I did a gig. Not a gig, actually. I do state magic,
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regardless of if it's paid or not.
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Just for fun. So, this was a big convention on our week.
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We had a lot of visitors coming from all over the country. Here
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in Saudi Arabia So I did the double cross You
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know double cross You are familiar with the principle Amazing amazing trick And
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this is the best time I build this trick I already
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mark the hand Everyone is anticipating The X moving from my hand Disappear in
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the thin air It will appear in her hand I build it up for five minutes I've
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been building this trick up At the end Everyone is silent Everyone is waiting
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For this to happen And when she opened her hand,
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Her hand was so clean, like a baby ass.
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I swear to God, I don't know what happened. After I went back home,
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I figured out that the mark or the stamp has been broken or dropped or whatever.
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Like I have the cover, I have the lid, but not the stamp.
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This is like a really fucked up situation, and how do you cover from it,
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guys? Tell me, how do you cover from this?
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Oh wow that is going to be hard to beat in terms of speed pipes because that
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was a very well told story the speed pipe ever,
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and i can have you guys done that
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yet because i have the the stamper has fallen out
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of the cap i managed to do
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it to myself i bought double cross and broke it
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immediately and never replaced it and so
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that that was my experience with it similar to
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this gentleman's what's the what the what the
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fuck yeah i mean i've done it on on live tv like i had i was on was it studio
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10 or something and and i thought i'd be fancy and i would i would do i would
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do the stamping as pre-show so that in real time it just looked like real magic
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and I was very excited for that to happen,
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and then but the reveal there was still some ink like thank god there was some
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ink so there was like a little bit but it just hadn't worked or her hands had
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been cleaned in between sets or whatever.
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And the only thing I could do was like point at it and like just long enough
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for her to go, oh, that's weird.
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And I'll go, no, let's keep going with the ink. I'm going to get you to actually
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sign a whole card this time.
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And I brought out the blank deck and you just, you have to keep like moving
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through it. And then they forget that it happens.
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Except for magicians. I had like three magicians message me being like,
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oh, that's stuffed up, didn't it? I'm like, thanks, mate.
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But yeah, that's, that's tricky. You have to have something to go into if that happens, right?
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So like, Nick, what comes to mind if you are him, if you're Aziz,
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you've built up this thing for five minutes and the X has gone somewhere,
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but it's not in the hand. What do you do?
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Okay, this is, I just thought of this. Awesome. Purely for redundancy purposes,
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put an X somewhere on your person.
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My thought was this. I would probably just pull back my ear and I would put an X behind my ear.
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And if it ever didn't work i would
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do a thing where i would go like open your hand and
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it leaves and it goes behind your ear have a look is it
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is it not there crap is it let me check yours
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wait and then you go like it should and you and you show
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it should it should have been behind your ear just there and then
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it's behind your ear and you
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wouldn't use that as a reveal but i
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think an effect versus no effect works
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a bit better well if you're doing double cross you need to go get that tat
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go get that x tat right here you're ready to go commit maybe maybe what about
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what about what about a coin i used to for a while back in the day i used to
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i used to with sharpie write a reveal like a six and a heart or something and
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then i would sit the coin so if it's written here,
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I would put it in their hand this way, so when they close it now,
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it'll reveal when they open their hand.
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But maybe there's a way on the fly. On the fly, you could even do it, but I guess...
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What if you had a coin with an X on it? So you say, oh, it's not in your hand
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yet. Okay, let's put something in your hand.
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And you do like a little fake kind of a display, close your hand, and then try again.
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Is that going to maybe provoke some kind of magical?
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Yeah. I don't know. It's tough. It's a tough move when you build it up that much.
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Scott Link says, I've seen a Waldo tattooed behind an ear.
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Maybe that'll be fun, holding an X, you know? that's yeah i'm
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just i'm just half thinking like what would be
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your backup situation where it's like you go
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for the miracle miracle fails but you still have
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an effect and that is the best i can kind of think of where
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it just it appears somewhere maybe
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under your watch or like you know like i'm
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just trying to think where you could put it that would be i actually love
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that idea any random x ready to go in case
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of emergency if you're doing a high-end situation or
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any gig where you need to look smart every time that's
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a smart out takes one second to make
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a little x somewhere and if you need it there and
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for me the type of thing where it's like oh so i go
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i messed that one up that was supposed to go behind your ear not my
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ear you know like my bad okay and then they
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go whoops okay let's move on to the next one and they go that's funny
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i didn't even see that there and move on yeah
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yeah it's also a good point to mention that
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we maybe shouldn't rely on double cross that heavily
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but what have we got oh look it's
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behind you run yeah you know what i'm thinking about right now
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is watching bob sheets perform the hiba haba
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al sugar trick you guys know what the sugar trick is no what's that as in like
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sugar cube the one where you rub it comes up here's the deal you take a sugar
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cube you get someone's initials you ask them what their initials are you write
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it on the sugar cube you drop the sugar cube in a glass of water and have them
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put their your hand on top.
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When they lift their hand, their initials are now in their hand.
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And then you say, look at the back of your hand and the initials are there.
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Look at the back of your other hand and the initials are there.
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Sir, you think that's funny? Look at your hand. You got them too.
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And so now you, so I don't want to give the whole thing, but you're able to
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take the impression from the sugar cube.
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You use a lead pencil and with some moisture, you can
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dab it onto your finger and start tagging people
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in different places i saw bob sheets perform this routine slayed with it when
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you say one he finishes the routine by saying you think that's funny lady you
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got one on your leg come with me and he runs with her to the bathroom and she
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starts screaming from the bathroom and,
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That's great version of, yeah, you, you would have to do it in reverse because
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it's a stamp as well, which is really quite a, quite a skill set to practice.
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That is very impressive. And I don't know if you've seen Bob sheets perform,
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but let me tell you, he is powerhouse.
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Yeah. And this routine, I don't know, it can get much stronger than that.
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You know, you have six or seven people have these random initials appear upon them.
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Damn yeah so that's the hibahaba al sugar trick it's a killer well i'll tell you what guys we,
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like aziz we've offered a solution with regards to an
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out if anyone else listening has a better idea we do
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have a discord where we do share magic and we share ideas there is
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a hashtag called the the podcast and you just say
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hey idea for aziz share your thoughts we
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are a community we do take care of each other so if you have any ideas please
25:20
scope out our discord share your thoughts in there as well i'm saying
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we've on to the next one absolutely because no doubt after
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the pod the three of us will be like oh yeah that's what
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we should do in that situation it's so hard to
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think about anything when we're trying to think of this machine not blowing
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up midstream so let's carry on our next speak pipe is from nicholas aka dragoteer
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who's in the chat dragoteer let's hear what you've been up to my friend here
25:48
we go this is more of a gig that never happens story,
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Me and a couple of other magician friends were wanting to get together and put
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on a show for the community.
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And I noticed on my local city website that they had outside stage that you can rent out.
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It was like a $500 security deposit. So I went up to my parks and rec after
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my day job and cash in hand.
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They started to take my information and they said, okay, so what's your band's
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name? And I'm like, oh, we're not a band. We're just some magicians wanting to put on a magic show.
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And they go oh well this stage is concerts only so we had to go back to the
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drawing board for that one yeah and i was just wondering if anything like that
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has ever happened to you guys that is crazy,
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you know what that's never happened to me but i've had situations where they
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go what do you do for a living i go magician and they go oh what instrument
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do you play i'm just like banjo.
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And you just go with it yeah yeah
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yeah the age-old confusion
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i would just pull out my nose flute and get busy
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wow that's a tough one nick
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yeah you're not alone we all get mixed confused with
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with magicians and musicians but yeah
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you know that's unfortunate that they because you would
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think that a magician using the stage is way
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less of an issue or you know
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risk than a band how many
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times have you done a corporate where there's been a band and they're like
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oh you're gonna do your stage portion up there and you're like the amount
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of equipment tables microphones foldback
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speakers drum kit amplifiers there is
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zero real estate for a magic show here like what the
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how how did you think it's a good idea and
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why did you make what did you order the world's shortest stage you
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know when yeah normally a corporate
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stage show i always plan to do
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my routine where i do a backflip on stage and stuff but it always depends on
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actually when i get there is there a low ceiling compared to the stage i can't
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do it and has the band freaking taken over the stage if they have i can't do
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it and i never know until i get there And sometimes,
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like you're saying, Nick, they're like, oh, yeah, we've left you like a one
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meter by one meter spot for you to stand. Like, is that enough?
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I'm like, sure. You know, by that stage, it's too late. And you're like, sure.
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But yeah, it's crazy how much room and also how much like rehearsal time before
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the show starts bands will take, which I get it.
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And it's just, you know, our lives.
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Every time I do a stage show, which I've done just in the past few months,
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I'll say for most recent purposes, I'm there.
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I've done my tech. I've done everything I need to.
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Doors, normally when I do an event of this nature, it's like a very large scale
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ballroom with several hundred seats.
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And there's a foyer in which everyone sits out there. What I tend to do is once
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I've done my bit, I'll go into the foyer and I'll rock everyone's world.
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I can't tell you how many times I've gone like, oh, people are starting to arrive.
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I'm going to go in the foyer.
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Band isn't even done setting up, nor have they done soundcheck.
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Yeah. And I'm treating myself like. True.
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You know what I want to know? I want to hear from musicians out there that get
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confused as magicians. Are there any of them out there?
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Is there a dude with like long hair and like, you know, a clean cut beard?
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And when he's like, oh, I'm a musician. They're like, oh, like,
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you should go and follow us.
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He puts his guitar down. That's never happened in the history of man.
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I'll put my guitar down and grab a Sharpie marker and be like,
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what's this X on my hand? Yes.
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Nick, you saying you never got confused as a magician when you were in a band?
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Never when I was in a band.
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Fair enough no no thankfully not but yeah
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i think the way you pivot that i mean you know what i would do i would talk it
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like so what i'm curious is like the outcome of the gig did they just
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say like you're not doing the gig or get the hell out of here or what
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are we supposed to do now like was it like hey man let us
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do the gig i promise you it's going to be an absolute banger like how
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did it work out in the end like what was the outcome yeah i
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think they just tried to book the space and they couldn't book it
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that's what i got like they couldn't even book it
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because they're magic dorks yeah learning
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magic jeez jeez i'm
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you know my first ever stage show that i put on myself
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was at a scout hall famously for any
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of my friends who i made come and watch me it was at the nanda scout
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hall and it was like you know this dingy two-story what probably used to be
30:37
a house that they converted into a scout hall i went up there and it kind of
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looked like a church setup They cleared all the big long chairs away for me
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and put out normal seats for people to sit on.
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It was like a dingy wooden stage and some curtains we had to manually pull back and stuff.
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But sometimes that's just what you do. You just find somewhere else.
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You make it work. And then the next time you do a show, you just try and find
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a little bit of a better place.
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But in the beginning, you just want to do magic, right? So you almost don't care where you do it.
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You're just whatever. I remember doing letterbox drops for that show,
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like in, in the surrounding neighborhood.
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I would never do that now, but, um, in the beginning, you just do find where
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you can to perform. So you gotta.
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Yep. I agree with that. And so.
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Yeah. So we have one more speak pipe from Alex Lam, who just made it in the chat. Shout out, Alex.
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Alex is only, I feel like he's really ramped up his gigging ability,
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him and Scotty P, sort of since January this year. And so in the last couple of months.
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So really interested to hear what conundrums he's getting himself into.
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Alex Lam, let's hear what you got, buddy.
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Alright so not the craziest gig story but something just happened at my last
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one and it's one of those things where just the stars align and you're just
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like yes something that wouldn't happen.
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Naturally and it just totally works out so I say pick a card to this guy and
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I've got two duplicates on top ready for the two card transpo,
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he's not trying to be a jerk he's just trying to be a bit cheeky and he
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says I want this one and he takes the second card from
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the top which is a duplicate and I'm like are you sure you want that
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one he's like yeah yeah yeah i want this one so i'm
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like yes in my mind i'm like yes yes yes so he
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shows his card is one of the jack of diamonds he
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shows it to his friend i palm the other jack i just
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do card to pocket right there and i palm palm it pull it out of my pocket and
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he's like what the hell and he starts freaking out and i say look i'll show
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you how i do it and i pick up a double and i palm the double and i show him
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my hands and i've got two cards as one in my hand. I say, look,
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your Jack of Diamonds gets palmed off.
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I pull it out of my pocket, and then I've ditched the second duplicate.
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And I say, look, here, take it back, shuffle, shuffle, shuffle. And I say, look, watch.
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Empty hand, reach into the pocket, pull out his card again.
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And he just goes dead silent for like 30 seconds. So it's one of those things
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where people freak out, and they're like, oh my god, how you do that?
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And then they go silent, and you just know that their brain is not computing what they just saw.
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And yeah, it was just one of those fun things that just works out for you.
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That's great. A duplicate card to pocket sequence.
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I wonder if you could make that happen on purpose where you have a second one
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in your pocket already and it is signed enough within like a 10 of clubs that
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when you flash it, it could be the same one.
33:43
Let me speak on the original Carlisle homing card routine, which used a pocket
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switch for that ruse to get one ahead.
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He would force the three of diamonds, and then after doing the pocket switch,
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switch it for an ace of diamonds, so that as he inserts the card,
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he could use this ruse as the card goes in,
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creating an impromptu duplicate from a force.
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That's great. And that was the original homing card routine.
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Stars of magic is your reference.
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Ooh, that's awesome. I think.
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I learned my homing card from Michael Vincent's work, and I imagine he probably
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learned it from there, from Stars of Magic. No doubt.
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That's a great idea to show the Ace of Diamonds as a three.
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Or any pseudo-duplicate. Maybe it's better with more pips on the card.
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But Carlisle's original, he might not have had that touch in Stars of Magic.
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It might be in the Magic of Francis Carlisle, but I'm pretty sure it's in there.
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For sure, homing cards in Stars of Magic, though. Wow.
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There's there's one other duplicate story that comes to mind from pasha our buddy pasha magic,
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he was doing an ambitious card routine and he
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would actually sign his duplicates so it
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looked like a real duplicate like a real
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exact so he would pretend like it was signed from
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someone else and he got the guy to pick one out he picks it
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he's like oh i don't want that one it's already signed and the guy throws
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it away and pasha's like
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all right and just by chance he goes right
35:17
take another one he just so happens to grab the exact same duplicate that looks
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signed looks at it and goes what the f and it was for him the like the best
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miracle ever because it was so fair like shuffle shuffle shuffle just take one
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you gotta you gotta save those moments they're the best.
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Yeah the best is like when you tell someone
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to name a card okay i'll share one little quick gig story
35:44
that only magicians will appreciate but so i'm doing
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my my normal shtick of mnemonicosis right so
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the deck's in their hand i'm like the groups crowded around like name any card
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and in this case it was the eight of hearts so i'm like all right spell your
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name out she spells her name out boom eight of hearts right amazing miracle
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great then the group's like holy crap And they're trying to dissect it because they're med students.
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They're like, what would have happened if she had said a different card?
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Like, would her name have spelt to a different card?
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Or like, what if her name was a different spelling? Like, I just can't,
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like, you just let her do all that.
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How would that have played out in another reality? I'm like, that's the question.
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And I don't know why. I don't know why I decided to do it again,
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but they were just a fun group. And I was like, would you like to see it again, though?
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Normally I wouldn't. And they're like, yeah. So we give the deck to a different person.
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And I'm like, all right, name a card. And she just so happens to name the card
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that's the next one in the deck, the six of spades.
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So now they themselves have lined up that her card is sitting right underneath her new names card.
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So when she spells her name out, she spells it out to the eight of hearts.
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And I'm like, that's so weird that you did that because I thought this might
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happen. And that's why I put one card right beneath it, check it out,
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which just solidified that I'd done that on purpose, if that makes sense.
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And it was like, it was actually too much for them. And it was fantastic.
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Yeah, that's literally too perfect. Like, oh man.
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Yeah. And sometimes you just gotta, you just gotta go with it.
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You're pretty remarkable when you get challenged a lot while you're performing. that
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happens more times than not especially with the
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ego that comes along with performing for high-end events
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you know i'm the rich guy i've got all this ego
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vibrato it becomes a very much a thing i remember i
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was performing in a high-end nightclub in our sort
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of fancier part of town and i'm doing
37:49
my thing in the club i was on the rooftop because that's where
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the all the smokers were and everyone's having a great time
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and this and this i don't know i'm going to do my best to describe it
37:58
but just imagine like the alpha of the group is then addressed that's like you've
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got to get blah and then he sees mr alpha and goes you gotta see this guy's
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amazing and as he walks over he just goes he can't be that good i've still got
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my watch and i'm like this motherfucker so so naturally i stole the watch.
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And then i give it back to him being like i guess i'm not good day that and
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i gave him a business card. I think I did one event for him in the future,
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but it was just one of those things where you do get challenged and it's like,
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what are you thinking? You know, like, yeah,
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And it's funny because sometimes there's always like one, it's either,
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it's remarkable, either like the alpha or the shit kicker of the company,
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the guy who like sweeps the floors and cleans the toilets and is like,
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well, no, no, come on, mate, you can't let that go. Oh, you can't fool me.
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It's like, bro, you can barely string together a sentence. You're challenging me.
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I'm like, I'm blowing sleight of hand. Sure. Let's do this.
38:55
It's, it's a fun thing. It's a fun place to dance where people come at you with challenging.
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Well, if you could do this, I was performing another event just a couple of weeks ago.
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Go and this there was a
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group of guys they were part of this company and every
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and it was just remarkable because every time they said something it
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was literally the next phase of the routine i was going to do anyway yes
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it will do something with
39:22
three do something with with one coin all right
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i'll put these two away look at this one here do something
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with a pen oh and i changed the into a pen
39:31
boom do something with the balloon fuck this
39:35
is too good what's that behind your ear boom balloon
39:38
put a phone in a balloon break the balloon but you can't fix
39:41
the balloon but you fucking can fix the
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balloon do the thing hold the balloon but you can't put a card in there i'm
39:48
like are you have you seen my act have you seen my act like the guy just called
39:52
out every phase of my thing and then i had the ceo come across sign a card put
39:57
that card inside the balloon i And I was just like, and then he was like,
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do something with a knife.
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And I was like, I left my knife in my bag.
40:05
And that was it. I go, but I can. But he just, everything he said,
40:09
I was just like, I got this.
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Like, it was so fun to just be walked down this garden path.
40:15
You know? That's so good.
40:17
Yeah yeah and the reactions are so much higher too because they they feel like
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it's unprepared because they they're the ones that have said it yeah so it's
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like just so much stronger one time,
40:31
one time i was doing a show and i was doing my cups and balls and the cups and
40:36
balls is entirely reminiscent of gazo's cups and balls but the difference between
40:40
my cups and balls is i would i bring the table out my three cups and i explain
40:45
this is like the oldest trick in the book blah blah, blah, blah. And I explained that.
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I go, so the story of this is quite unique. You see, my real name isn't Nick K.
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It's Cassidus. It's a Greek name.
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And I'm first generation born in this country. Now, many years ago,
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my grandfather migrated here and we had a family business, a fruit shop.
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And we all used to work in a fruit shop.
41:08
And people would come from all around to see me do this routine because I didn't
41:13
want to be like a fruiterer.
41:15
I wanted to be a magician. and so i used to have to tell my audience hey
41:18
if my granddad is that a thing
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yeah yeah it's here it's it's
41:23
a it's a common thing in fact there was a very popular comedian
41:26
called con the fruiterer okay which was a
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greek yeah it's a in australian culture just so
41:32
you're aware melbourne especially it's the largest greek settlement outside
41:35
of greece which my background is harden
41:38
my interruption fruiter not at all not at all but i'm happy
41:41
to educate but what i would do is i would i would do this
41:43
bit where i'd say like i used to people would come
41:46
from all around and see me perform this very routine and i
41:49
just have to say hey if my granddad comes this isn't a magic show it's a fruit
41:54
shop okay and everyone goes okay so i do my cups and balls routine and then
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i start producing all the fruits from underneath the cups and i do six pieces
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of fruit and two coconuts that's that's Those are my loads on this big table. Right?
42:10
So I do the whole routine with the six. Now, what I like to do is...
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I always do this. You shouldn't feel, I go, don't feel bad. You should have
42:19
been paying attention over here under this cup. Cause you know what,
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you know, what's under there.
42:22
And they go orange and I go orange and they go, you should be paying attention
42:26
over here. And do you know why?
42:27
And they go, apple. I go, absolutely. Apple, every single fruit they called
42:32
fruit, veg, you name it was revealed except for the last two.
42:38
It's because I'm doing six of them. Right. And so I go like,
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you should be paying attention over here.
42:41
And do you know why? He goes, onion. I go, no, no, no. The onions on this side. and
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then I reveal the onion on that side and then I go but what's on this side
42:47
and he was like potato and I went potato it is he called
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all six of the fruit so
42:54
it was like he just named so so for everyone watching my show it was like the
42:57
guy just named a fruit and it was under the cup he just named the fruit and
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it was under the cup like it was the best thing I've ever seen and that was
43:04
such a fun fun thing to do and then I finished the show where I produce a coconut
43:09
I got I was like you should be paying attention as to what's under the hat.
43:12
And everyone yells out things like this and that, the three bowls.
43:16
And I go, no one ever says coconut. And I drop a coconut and then a second one.
43:20
And then I say, oh, by the way, this wasn't a magic show.
43:23
And then I hit a kabuki drop and from the front of the table unravels a thing
43:27
that says Nick's fruit shop.
43:28
And I go, it wasn't a magic show. It's a fruit shop. And so you've got this
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table covered in fruit and a sign that says Nick's fruit shop.
43:35
So it leans back into that thing where if anyone, my granddad comes,
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this isn't a magic show, I'm just selling fruit.
43:41
I'm just selling fruit. Man, what a great premise for a magic show to have happen in a fruit shop.
43:46
Like you got cuffs and balls, you got card to orange, you got the vanishing bandana.
43:52
Like you could have so much.
43:55
Multiplying bananas yeah i i did
43:58
a lot of stuff for woolworth's which is our supermarkets on
44:01
this side of the planet and yeah i did stuff all over
44:04
the country for these guys like i was driving all the way i was like
44:07
five hours away in the middle of nowhere and i was doing shows
44:10
out there i was working in their bakery even you know what i mean like i
44:12
was doing stuff in their bakery with bread and like just performing these
44:16
these shows like it was great it was a great little life
44:18
and so i really had fun creating that sort of
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thing but it's such a rarity coconuts what do you have the world's largest pouch
44:26
that thing are you wearing a pouch when you do this routine or what i have it
44:30
here if you give me half a sec yeah i want to see this thing how the hell do
44:34
you hide six oranges and two coconuts that's heavy that's a lot a lot of it's
44:40
a lot of business going on,
44:41
so that's a lot of strain on your back if it is going into
44:44
the pouch this is a custom made pouch oh
44:48
as per the way i do things this is my one this was actually a gift from my mentor
44:55
doc andrews made from a beautiful red gum like this will never ever break which
45:00
i absolutely love and it's beautifully weighted as well you can see like it's
45:03
yeah and it's proper like with a handle like
45:06
yeah i used to just use a stick like a tombali stick because i could use that
45:09
joke where it's like it's a stick it's not a wand i'm not a fairy you would
45:12
make those jokes but it's got a good sound to it as well you know what i mean
45:15
like it's really it's really good this is my pouch.
45:19
Man that's pretty unassuming to hold all that stuff yep
45:23
uh this is this is a pouch to keep all
45:25
your money in oh i love
45:29
that there's a zippered compartment on the
45:32
back of this pouch i don't think i've ever seen this before yeah
45:35
money money in
45:40
it there's a few hundred bucks in there i didn't realize
45:43
yeah so
45:46
you just you know i usually put your weaver belt through it
45:49
put the belt around your waist i
45:53
have these rings and things street cups
45:56
absolutely enormous there's a beautiful dent in this one from a guy who doesn't
46:00
know how to throw um yeah but you know the these these paid off my first house
46:07
like these are amazing so wow but inside you can see like i've In this very
46:12
moment, I've got one, two, three...
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All six yeah is that
46:18
narrow enough to wear your side pockets
46:22
when wearing that pouch i have
46:25
side pockets here okay yeah for
46:28
the viewers he actually nick actually has two
46:31
coconuts just chilling in there right now with with four four
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to six oranges yeah just on the whim who
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made that thing ah god i
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wish i could remember i did it online with all
46:45
my custom colors there's so so i've got i've got
46:48
stuff here on the sides i've got like thumb a couple of thumb tips in
46:50
there and what if it's for bill change whatever else i got a
46:53
couple of bits here i got some stuff on the design then
46:57
for the pouch did you design did you design
47:00
the pouch no no it's it's based off an existing design
47:03
but i wanted to custom colors and stuff they make
47:06
them out of like brown and i was like i'm not doing that so
47:09
yeah you know squeakers for doing
47:12
the gag with the ball you know you get a lot of stuff out
47:15
of that there's another one yeah the the
47:18
of the the there's a pouch inside of this
47:21
couch so i could go my three balls with it you know what i mean like three wink
47:25
wink balls with it yeah and there's even a little portion on top of that in
47:30
front of it where like individual little pockets just for the balls just for
47:33
the ball so yeah but that and this is this is what a fruiter i would ordinarily
47:37
have like when you go to a fruit market But especially where I grew up,
47:41
this is what a fruiter I would have. Yeah, all right. That makes sense, actually.
47:45
Yeah. And so I would wear this fruiter a bag, if you will. Yeah.
47:49
And just exchange money and this and that and change things and load things.
47:53
And, you know, so, yeah. No, I don't wear it over the neck. I was just doing
47:57
it so I can hold it in frame for the camera.
47:59
But this goes around my waist. Are the oranges real oranges or do you have fake oranges?
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No, these are 100% real oranges. I had to buy a whole bag of them for like three
48:09
bucks. I ate four of them last night.
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Why do you have part of your repertoire then organic fruit in your bag? Cause that shit.
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Yeah. I got these, I was doing a public show and I just wanted something robust.
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The, the oranges, naval oranges specifically have a thicker skin and they,
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they can take a bit of a beating. Yeah. That's good.
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Yeah. Whereas otherwise what I do is I literally go to the fruit shop to the
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point that like I go to the fruit shop with this and they look at me like show
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tonight. I'm like, yeah, show tonight. I've been there.
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Yeah. And then I just, I just try to find the biggest, like,
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I guess I'll find the biggest capsicum and I'll be like, yeah.
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Yeah. And if it goes and it stays for a sec, I'm like, even better.
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If I have to like, if I have to like.
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Bang the cup out like to get they're just like oh my
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god it's like it was growing out of there yeah and so
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and that's what i do i just go there i find individual pieces you know so typically
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it's always like the two types of apples you know red and green i always try
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to get a big size onion try get a big ass orange i love to get a capsicum if
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i can you know like a bell pepper if you will.
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Yeah so try to use something like that and then i'll turn up
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with that micah mar line you never know what might turn up
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yeah yeah turnips there yeah and
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so yeah and that's it's a
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good little back and it's a good little routine yep that's cool
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are you bringing that to brisbane this
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weekend is that happening by the way it is
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i will be in brisbane in in
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towumba i don't even know where that is but
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i'm coming and yeah it's i
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was gonna do the like the close-up
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set if you will i know we don't really do close-up sets anymore but i was gonna
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focus on doing close-up and then allowing carrie to the
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amazing nigel rather to do his larger scale thing so i've got some really gnarly
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stuff that i'm bringing nice pretty cool like magic theater yeah yeah the theater
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of magic We once a month also have an extended version of the show that happens in Toowoomba,
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which is about an hour away from Brisbane City.
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There's a beautiful theatre there, which has, yeah, hired the show every month
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for this year, like once a month.
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And yeah, this time Nick will be going up there with the amazing Nigel.
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And yeah, the Empire Theatre is beautiful. But the actual room we use is not
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the theatre. It's like a side venue function room.
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But it turns out really nice. So, yeah, Toowoomba is not going to know what
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hits you, man, because Toowoomba is like a pretty chilled sort of like retirement styled town.
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And yeah, that's going to be good. They get a lot of great acts going through
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there, but they'll love you.
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Yeah. Like, should I keep away from the close up stuff because they're old and
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can't see? Is that what you're sort of leaning into?
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Oh, no. I mean, I would plan. This is funny.
51:05
We're just saying this on the air because, I mean, this is good advice for anyone, I guess.
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But I would definitely plan to do close up but still standing so almost like
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parlor close up if that makes sense so like you know your car to box work you
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just I mean I've seen you do it standing up anyway so like,
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sitting down on a chair seems to not work as well with this audience is what
51:27
I'm getting at but you can do whatever you want but that would be my advice
51:31
I kind of pack the chairs in like
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pretty tight there's a few rows so like anything standing up is perfect,
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and Yeah, you'll have fun. Yeah.
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I was performing last week. We had a jam session on our Discord,
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and I was showing the guys the routines that I've been working on with my coin
51:46
stuff. And yeah, they were...
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Impressed i hope i don't want to be self-proclaimed but yeah
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it was just some pretty pretty cool stuff i'd love to show you guys because
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i was actually going to jam this with one of our previous guests called tim
51:58
ellis who's the you know the the president
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of the what's it called melbourne magic festival that's going to be
52:04
starting up in a couple of weeks where eric leclerc is going to be coming
52:07
down along with tobias dostell here in melbourne for the
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magic festival and yeah he was been sweating me for
52:12
a while to be like come on let's go work on this routine of yours and uh
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we're supposed to hang out today but due to some meetings and.
52:18
Whatever else and he's got to do stuff with visas to get people to
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come yeah but i would love to share this routine with
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with you guys so you get your thoughts maybe
52:28
i'll do it on the show but i've got i got a quick um doctor's appointment
52:31
when we wrap up in five minutes so nice well
52:34
let me think let me think quickly so the the
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gigs that i did on the weekend i'm just thinking of any notable stories i
52:40
mean a video i just put up yesterday was because it
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was a casino event they had these giant jumbo cards
52:46
in the room like giant like one story
52:50
tall playing cards so the obvious thing for
52:52
me to do was to to force the two cards that
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were directly behind the spectators i was performing for
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so that was a bit of fun so every time i'd go to a different corner of
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the room i just look at oh what are the two cards leaning against
53:05
the wall great that's that effect and look
53:07
i'll share something i'll share a stuff up with you guys well
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not a stuff up just i'm learning since we're there's no
53:14
way a layman's listening 56 minutes into this i bought the latest henry harry's
53:20
tobias dostell vanishing phone you know what do we call it optic yeah something
53:26
like that i've got one as well oh my god why am i not someone will put it in
53:29
the chat anyway great setup great methods fantastic.
53:34
I got caught I got caught in the first sequence I'm like alright I'm going to
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turn the light on they're like,
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you're holding two phones. I'm like, God damn it. And I just vanished the extra
53:45
piece. And then they were like, no, no, it's just your phone. They're like, what?
53:48
And then that weirdly became the effect was what they thought the extra thing
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I was holding is now gone because you can just instantly make it vanish.
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Optics Pro. Thank you, Caden.
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So I thought I had done enough practicing to give it a try.
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And I waited till like the end of the gig when I'd shown this group a bunch
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of stuff and they seem pretty chill.
54:10
And I was like, can I show you one more that I'm kind of working on?
54:13
It's like, yeah. Like, all right, let me borrow your phone.
54:16
Oh, there's two phones. Great.
54:20
So I got to practice that more. I feel like it's also because I didn't take
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off their phone cover, but I thought with my hand being there,
54:29
it wouldn't be a thing to notice.
54:31
But anyway, just to let you know, we're not all, we're not perfect and, uh,
54:36
learning new stuff still, still takes time well when
54:39
you got you know when you borrow someone's phone the heat's going
54:42
to be on double time so you gotta really get
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get that misdirection working strong yeah so there's certain things i feel that
54:51
hold a lot of value that we that we use as borrowed objects i think the finger
54:55
rings can be one of them depending on which fingering you get some of them are
54:58
just like a little two dollar thing that somebody bought while they're away
55:02
in the caribbean or whatever it might be.
55:04
But phones are like your life. You've got entire photo albums in there.
55:08
Everything that you hold dear is in there.
55:10
And it's also now your credit card in a sense. So that's also a very scary thing.
55:14
And I've had situations where I've been performing where I vanish a phone, as you know.
55:21
And I had people put police reports on me because they believe that I skimmed
55:25
the credit card off their phone.
55:27
And I've had to deal with police reports in that fashion.
55:30
I've just been like prove it and how much is it they're like oh it was like
55:34
$43.74 I'm like I would steal that much money from you $43 absolutely and what
55:40
was it charged to you know.
55:43
And I missed out on three weeks worth of work because this guy who's an absolute
55:46
tool just assumed or forgot that he was too pissed to remember that he like
55:51
bought a round of drinks or whatever the hell it might be.
55:54
It's just the dumbest things can happen in that sense. I have an effect,
55:57
which I'm working on, a good friend, David Regal, who we had on the show not too long ago.
56:03
I've been going through his book, Interpreting Magic, and he's got an amazing
56:06
routine called Fiscal Waste where credit cards appear in a nest of bins and so forth.
56:12
I have a whole premise with, with a, I want to use someone's ID instead of,
56:17
because there was a thing for a while, and this is for me customizing it for
56:22
a client who specializes in security.
56:25
And we're talking about how security, like, you know, the security and ID and
56:28
identity theft can be a thing.
56:30
And there was for a time people were going through your trash,
56:34
stealing, you know, let's say you had like some bank statements,
56:36
for example, you read them and put them in the bin.
56:38
If someone goes through your trash they can then take those bank
56:41
statements and basically falsify along with
56:44
a few other documents and falsify that like no i'm josh
56:47
nabito you know what i mean so yeah so i
56:50
had this whole premise of like people going through
56:53
your trash and people stealing your identity and the idea would be
56:56
that like your identity is gone your identity must be in the trash let's go through the
56:58
trash and then we would find your id in there
57:01
and i feel like the id is a very good thing to use because if
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they ever go like it's probably a duplicate credit card it's probably a made up one
57:07
it's probably not even a real one you can't really fake your id man you know
57:11
what i mean it's just your id and everyone should help you know yeah it might
57:16
have something to do with you like the the time you've served in jail or your
57:19
criminal record or your house arrest anklet that's making them seem like maybe you did something dodgy.
57:26
To the credit card but you know that's how you learn the best sleight of hand
57:29
in jail so much downtime it is look guys we've pretty much hit an hour this
57:35
is this has been a very enlightening,
57:38
episode to hear what you're up to in the trenches keep them coming because the
57:41
we'll sort of bank them up and then when we hit you know a certain amount of
57:45
speak pipes we'll unleash more gig stories doug and what's up for you this week
57:50
in vegas what is happening in vegas right now.
57:54
Yikes thanks for bringing this up like when would podcast is over oh well you
57:59
know what no no well don't say that bit.
58:01
We can say that bit next week, but like, you know, we're busy building the magic empire over here.
58:06
Had a good time seeing some Vegas luminaries in the shop. Nick defod hung out
58:10
with Alan new this week. That was cool.
58:12
Some of the buskers were in last weekend, Victor diamond.
58:16
He's a hot cat. And Jeremy Jackson, and,
58:20
Man, I mean, so many magicians in Vegas. Caleb Alexander, he's opening a new
58:24
show at the Griffin here, taking over Dan Sperry's spot.
58:28
Oh, wow. Like, cool shit. Like, Nick Defaut's in the shop and needs a ride over to the Mandalay Bay.
58:33
So, you know, I get to, like, chill with the Vegas hotshots on the down low.
58:39
I do like seeing your photos show up from Trick Supply of just the...
58:44
Yeah, and I don't take half of them because I'm self-conscious about asking these
58:47
pros if i can like blast them out on social media so
58:50
really you know like well ken axel he
58:53
does ghost stories at the mandalay bay he was in last week
58:56
he is a banger let me tell you go see that show you'll
58:59
be happy we should get him on here actually ken would
59:02
be we have we've had ken axel on here before oh that's right that's right yeah
59:07
but it was so long ago that that would be why you don't remember but he is such
59:12
a strong performer right anyway yeah shit like that You didn't see Ken Axtell
59:16
on the webpage because I can't ask everybody.
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Yeah. Well, when Josh and I come to visit, we'll be cool about it.
59:24
And you can take a photo with us. It's not a big deal. Nice.
59:27
And that's it for the Magic Guys. We'll see you next week with a guest. So stay tuned for more.
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Thanks for listening. It's time for us to disappear now. Disappear now.
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But we'll see you again on the next episode of the Magic Guys. You.