Speaker 1: Hey, do we know anybody that's a magician?
Speaker 2: Well, like, I know Seth is a card magician, but
Speaker 2: he's learning. But do we know anybody that's like a
Speaker 2: magician magician? But I don't mean famous, no, but like somebody,
Speaker 2: like somebody who's like it's a side hustle.
Speaker 3: What was the name of the young entrepreneur who opened
Speaker 3: up that magic shop? Was it in Rockville?
Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think you're right.
Speaker 3: Didn't we talk to him?
Speaker 1: Or here we talk to him?
Speaker 3: I thought we did.
Speaker 1: I think you're right. That sounds right. What was his name?
Speaker 3: I have to look for it?
Speaker 1: Is he the only one?
Speaker 3: Is it Max?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Well, remember and I don't know if you still at
Speaker 3: it on your itinerary for next weekend. But a few
Speaker 3: weeks ago we talked about how there was a magic
Speaker 3: speakeasy opening up on the strip. That's right, that's right,
Speaker 3: I would check that out. Is it Maximum Magic Shop?
Speaker 3: Does that sound right?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think you're right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. How do I find a magician?
Speaker 3: Well, just sell us it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? But are there any well do they have to
Speaker 1: be making a career?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, I don't.
Speaker 3: Expect you said not famous, but career's pretty tough too.
Speaker 2: I would bet that there's nobody listening that can make
Speaker 2: a career out of magic, unless you maybe own a
Speaker 2: shop that sells. Okay, but you make a career out
Speaker 2: of owning a shop, right, You don't make your career
Speaker 2: out of doing magic.
Speaker 1: So that's what I mean.
Speaker 2: I'm not expecting to find anybody who's like, no, I
Speaker 2: mean listen, that would be impressive if you were that good.
Speaker 2: I love magic, I love magic, I can't do any
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 3: Would you accept somebody who does like children's birthday parties?
Speaker 1: Do they do magic?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm saying you're a magician.
Speaker 3: Well, they maybe do enough parties for a job.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fine, but your magic also needs to be
Speaker 2: I bet if you do children's parties, you don't just
Speaker 2: do exclusively kids parties, so you only learn like baby
Speaker 2: magic tricks? Or do you do like me watch me
Speaker 2: separate my finger? Corporate events that see that counts?
Speaker 1: That count?
Speaker 3: Then I bet you could find somebody.
Speaker 1: Yes, but that's somebody that's their side hustle.
Speaker 3: If you're if you're able to get in front of
Speaker 3: big business, that will be your gig.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll give you that if if you can do that, absolutely,
Speaker 2: but you got to be.
Speaker 1: Able to like, look right here, see how I separate
Speaker 1: my finger. Yeah, it's a good magic trick. What was that?
Speaker 1: Was it?
Speaker 3: The the link in Vegas? The speakeasy with the magicians
Speaker 3: that link promenade.
Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think you're right.
Speaker 3: I wonder how that's going. I'll be opened by that.
Speaker 1: I'll let you know in a week. Right now, I'm
Speaker 1: making a torches taco disappear. Where am I going? Blanked?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Hi Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 5: Hey, Elia, and I used to perform for about a decade,
Speaker 5: about ten years.
Speaker 6: What do you want to know?
Speaker 1: Are you as a working magician?
Speaker 6: No, but I have my kids that do it, and
Speaker 6: I teach them.
Speaker 1: Wait what do you mean by that?
Speaker 6: Teach them the trade like they perform, not me.
Speaker 1: So you but you know how to do it. But
Speaker 1: you never did it to perform. You just did it
Speaker 1: for the out of love for the art form and
Speaker 1: then taught your kids and your kids perform.
Speaker 6: No, I used to do it and get paid when
Speaker 6: I was younger. Yes, I used to do shows.
Speaker 1: Did you really? That's awesome? Hey? What is your what
Speaker 1: is your and maybe you don't have what is your specialty?
Speaker 6: Like floating objects, levitations they used to float CDs, you know,
Speaker 6: like CD disc CD disc they you know, and flowers.
Speaker 6: Stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Is awesome and it's hard to perfect.
Speaker 6: Right, it just takes a lot of practice.
Speaker 1: What magic.
Speaker 2: Hey did you like when you said you were performing?
Speaker 2: Like what kind of stuff were you doing? Like corporate
Speaker 2: events and things like that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I would do like uh, companies, summer parties, you know,
Speaker 6: Christmas bashes and.
Speaker 7: Stuff like that.
Speaker 6: I also used to juggle to as well.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, Well, I mean I mean that's fine, you know,
Speaker 2: like that's that's that's like circus act.
Speaker 1: No, no, but I don't mean that in a bad way.
Speaker 1: I don't mean that in a bad way. But don't
Speaker 1: you don't you wish you could do magic? Like magic
Speaker 1: is impressive. Magic is impressive to be able to do
Speaker 1: that and do it well. Yeah, And I've never been one.
Speaker 1: I've never been one to seek the answer.
Speaker 2: I don't want to know the answers, you know, Like
Speaker 2: there was the what was it like the magician.
Speaker 1: That that told me secret? Yeah, I never would watch
Speaker 1: that because I don't want to know how they do it.
Speaker 1: And I love torturing torturing myself to try to figure
Speaker 1: out how they do it. Magic is very I love magic.
Speaker 1: I do. I think it's so impressive. I mean, some
Speaker 1: stuff is dumb, but the no, because it is. But
Speaker 1: there's all different kinds of magic. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I go to a lot of magic shows, and you know,
Speaker 5: as a family, we go and I intentionally try not
Speaker 5: to figure out how it's done because I like the
Speaker 5: sense of wonder is the magic you know that it brings,
Speaker 5: brings the childhood feeling?
Speaker 2: Yes, hey, have you ever been to Here's one of
Speaker 2: the reasons I was asking, have you ever been to
Speaker 2: the Magic Castle out in Los Angeles?
Speaker 6: In Los Angeles?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 8: Have it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Oh they do.
Speaker 2: I guess they do a big swap meet every year
Speaker 2: where it's all, oh, do you know about it?
Speaker 6: Yes, I've heard about I've never been.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but I guess it's coming up that it
Speaker 2: is a big it's a big deal and it's sometimes
Speaker 2: sometimes it's small things or big things or stuff that
Speaker 2: gets used in magic, or like old old.
Speaker 1: Props and things like that. It's yeah, it looks kind
Speaker 1: of cool.
Speaker 6: Props and paraphernalia yeah, just for collection or for continuing
Speaker 6: to use.
Speaker 2: Good question is that would I go there because I'm
Speaker 2: I'm a fan and I'm just collecting things, or would
Speaker 2: I go there because I'm a magician and I'm looking
Speaker 2: for things to use in my act.
Speaker 6: Now, some of the stuff's old, some of it's new.
Speaker 6: Some of the stuff it's old. Yeah, that you don't
Speaker 6: want to use, but most of it is.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 6: People are reusing it for their shows.
Speaker 1: One guy sold his entire act there.
Speaker 2: He had a bunch of VHS tapes of him doing
Speaker 2: his magic and he was I don't remember if he
Speaker 2: died or if he was really sick, but he sold
Speaker 2: his entire act at the swap meet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's expected. I think it's cool. Though, Well I
Speaker 1: wasn't there. Don't you have to be invited?
Speaker 5: I don't know about that, but we should have bought
Speaker 5: it started side hustle.
Speaker 1: There you go. All right, dude, I appreciate it. Thank you,
Speaker 1: my friend.
Speaker 3: By the way, with it, says. With restoration work on
Speaker 3: the historic Magic Castle building ongoing, this season's outing has
Speaker 3: been moved down the block to the landmark Hollywood United
Speaker 3: Methodist Church. Does that ring a bell to anyone? In
Speaker 3: the room.
Speaker 2: No, But isn't that isn't that a conflict of interest? Like,
Speaker 2: don't some people think magic is like the devil's work?
Speaker 2: And now you're bringing it into a church.
Speaker 3: Why do we know that church?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Is that like a John ostein something or other?
Speaker 3: Josh, do you know that church? There's your hint.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's like Gorilla monsoon from there.
Speaker 3: In a random pull. Due to its convenient location near
Speaker 3: several Hollywood studios, the church has been frequently used as
Speaker 3: a filming location for movies Back to the Future, Thank You, Diane.
Speaker 3: They used the church's gymnasium for the Enchantment under the
Speaker 3: Sea dance. They also did the talent show scene and
Speaker 3: that thing you.
Speaker 1: Do What's the Bigger Loser one, Diane.
Speaker 3: Interior scenes for the movie Sister Act were filmed there.
Speaker 1: Oh, where am I going?
Speaker 3: My big Mama's house.
Speaker 1: That's a good show. Hi, Elliet in the morning.
Speaker 9: Hi, good morning.
Speaker 1: Hey are you a magician?
Speaker 9: I am. I'm not doing it as much as I
Speaker 9: used to, but I used to perform for at bars, restaurants,
Speaker 9: corporate events. It was always a side gig, though it
Speaker 9: was never a time career for me.
Speaker 1: I think that's awesome, though, I think that were you good?
Speaker 3: I was?
Speaker 9: I mean, not to toot my own horn. I feel
Speaker 9: like I'm was very good. And it was surprising to
Speaker 9: my fellow magicians who were making a career out of
Speaker 9: it that I didn't pursue it as a career. But
Speaker 9: I just thought once it turned into a job, I
Speaker 9: just wouldn't probably like it anymore. So that's why I
Speaker 9: chose not to really do it as a career.
Speaker 2: Is it is it a hard Is it a hard
Speaker 2: feel to break into?
Speaker 9: I think if you're older, yes, I mean I kind
Speaker 9: of got into it when I was about twelve years old.
Speaker 9: I kind of watched the first David Blaine special and
Speaker 9: then I was hooked. And then once I realized anybody
Speaker 9: could learn it, I just kind of it just kind
Speaker 9: of clicked for me. And it's a lot of work,
Speaker 9: it's a lot of practice, but anybody theoretically could learn it.
Speaker 9: It's really not that difficult. You just need time and
Speaker 9: patience and the willing to master it.
Speaker 1: Basically, can I ask you this is it? Like I do?
Speaker 1: I love magic. I think it is a very clever
Speaker 1: art form. Like I really like it, and.
Speaker 2: Like I don't know, like don't they always say, like
Speaker 2: you either make something disappear.
Speaker 1: Make something appear, or make something change. I don't know
Speaker 1: Melzer said it at some point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's exactly.
Speaker 2: But there's there's a million different ways to accomplish I
Speaker 2: don't want to say the same thing. And much like
Speaker 2: being a comedian, like you don't want to steal someone
Speaker 2: else's joke, so you're not trying to steal someone else's bit,
Speaker 2: but I'm still making a quarter up here from behind
Speaker 2: your ear. But like if you're a fan of it
Speaker 2: and then you learn how to do it, is there
Speaker 2: is the same wonder there, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like I love magic, but I don't want to know
Speaker 2: how it's done. But if I wanted to do it,
Speaker 2: I would have to know how it's done.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I like it to building a house. You give
Speaker 9: somebody a hammer, nails, and some wood, and three different
Speaker 9: people are going to build three different houses. And once
Speaker 9: you have the tools and the basic building blocks, you
Speaker 9: can kind of start forming your own ideas and your
Speaker 9: own solutions to things.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 9: I was at the point I finally got to the
Speaker 9: point in magic where everything became so second nature. I
Speaker 9: was almost hoping that I would screw up in front
Speaker 9: of people and make a mistake so I could then
Speaker 9: figure out a way how to get out of it.
Speaker 9: Because doing just regular magic started to get boring. I
Speaker 9: was like, hey, I need a challenge here. So if
Speaker 9: I would make a mistake because they would pick the
Speaker 9: wrong card or whatever, I would have to kind of
Speaker 9: come up on the fly with ways to get out
Speaker 9: of it and you know, switch it around it and
Speaker 9: maybe go into something else. It would have no you know,
Speaker 9: the person I'm doing it too would have no idea.
Speaker 9: But it became a challenge for me because I was
Speaker 9: I'm a close up magician. I always do card magic,
Speaker 9: coin stuff, very close up, intimate kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: Is what I do.
Speaker 1: Do you do?
Speaker 2: You still kind of keep abreast of the magic world.
Speaker 9: I'm not as in tune with the community as much,
Speaker 9: but I am still always shuffling a duck of cards.
Speaker 9: I got a deck of cards at my office on
Speaker 9: my desk and my desk at home. I'm always playing around,
Speaker 9: you know, maybe showing somebody at work something. But I
Speaker 9: don't I don't perform perform anymore like I used to.
Speaker 9: But when I do get asked to come to a
Speaker 9: birthday party or something, my friends having something to do,
Speaker 9: I'll bring a duck of cards and it all just
Speaker 9: kind of comes back to me like it's muscle memory. Yeah,
Speaker 9: like I'm telling me, I'll probably never forget but.
Speaker 2: The last time and now listen, I mean, you've got
Speaker 2: it as muscle memory. The only person I know is
Speaker 2: Seth who owns i MP.
Speaker 1: He like, if you go to dinner with him, he'll
Speaker 1: bring a deck of cards and he'll do magic while
Speaker 1: you eat the I mean, I'm sure he's gotten better
Speaker 1: than the last time that I saw him do it.
Speaker 2: But here's what I was going to ask you. Are
Speaker 2: you when when? When I say, do you keep up?
Speaker 2: Do you believe this hiring a magician has become a
Speaker 2: big thing at bachelorette parties.
Speaker 9: I do, actually, but but almost I feel like it's
Speaker 9: almost because I think I heard a similar story to
Speaker 9: this one. But they almost hire like a super old,
Speaker 9: corny magician, almost as a joke to the to the bride.
Speaker 1: Oh no, this doesn't I do. I do understand that
Speaker 1: you're expecting a stripper, but no, I do understand what
Speaker 1: you're saying. But here's what they said.
Speaker 2: It says the past couple of years, there's been a
Speaker 2: big shift away from traditional bachelorette entertainment. According to this
Speaker 2: one magician that they talk to every group of bridesmaid
Speaker 2: who books me says the same thing. They want something
Speaker 2: everyone can participate in and enjoy without being made to
Speaker 2: feel awkward or tacky.
Speaker 1: So if you said to.
Speaker 2: Your friends, hey, we're gonna bring over a stripper and
Speaker 2: we're all gonna drink out of penis straws and all that,
Speaker 2: there may be people in the group that are like, uh,
Speaker 2: so you're either pressured or bullied into doing it, or
Speaker 2: you're you're an outsider and you can't go. So they said,
Speaker 2: if we bring in something that is inclusive for everybody,
Speaker 2: and that magicians are making bank at at at bachelorette.
Speaker 4: Parties, I mean there is definitely some truth there.
Speaker 9: I mean, you know, the past couple of years, there's
Speaker 9: been a resurgence of magic with with you know, magicians
Speaker 9: that are on America's Got Talent and all those types
Speaker 9: of shows and tell their fool us there's all those
Speaker 9: kinds of that are kind of there is a resurgence
Speaker 9: of magic. So I definitely don't disbelieve that that statement.
Speaker 9: I'd be curious to know what magician they talked to
Speaker 9: that said that is that. I don't know if that's
Speaker 9: in your article there.
Speaker 1: Tristan McLendon.
Speaker 9: Now, I don't know that name, and I know quite
Speaker 9: a I know quite a few magicians over the years
Speaker 9: i've been I've lived in a few different states over
Speaker 9: the country, so I've had a lot of magicians in
Speaker 9: a lot of different areas. But yeah, that's the name
Speaker 9: I don't I'm not familiar with.
Speaker 2: They also said magic is multi generational, so it's not like, yeah,
Speaker 2: so it's not like, hey, we're going to have a
Speaker 2: bachelorette party, so you know, it's all my you know,
Speaker 2: late twenty early thirty year olds and like maybe some
Speaker 2: answer or something who don't mind seeing some wang, But it's.
Speaker 1: Everybody can go. Everybody can enjoy.
Speaker 9: Magic, beauty of it, and that's that's what I like
Speaker 9: about it. And I can perform the same thing to
Speaker 9: a ninety year old at a senior's home or or
Speaker 9: a five year old kid, you know, and everything in between.
Speaker 9: And that's that's what I used to do. I used
Speaker 9: to do everything in between, and that that's what I
Speaker 9: like about it. It's just it's it's you can perform
Speaker 9: for somebody that's you can perform for somebody that doesn't
Speaker 9: speak to Lange speak.
Speaker 1: Your language is Mortgage.
Speaker 9: It's very multifaceted I've learned over the years.
Speaker 2: Love it, love it. Hey, you're a great ambassador for it.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Wait, hold on, guy, does he know I see so there?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You're you're there? Right? Yeah, yeah, I didn't make him disappear.
Speaker 3: Do you know the magician Eric Willzig?
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 9: It's funny you say that because I actually am friends
Speaker 9: with him and I actually put together his promo video
Speaker 9: because my real job is I'm a video motion graphics designer.
Speaker 3: Well, I will say this. I saw him over the
Speaker 3: summer randomly at the Boardwalk Seaside Heights. He was incredible.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, he's fantastic. He does more of the stage
Speaker 9: type of magic. He also does do close up So
Speaker 9: I don't know what show he did for you, because
Speaker 9: he has two different shows. Was it close up magic
Speaker 9: like card stuff or was it stage magic?
Speaker 3: It was more stage because it was a large audience
Speaker 3: right there on the water right, do you know?
Speaker 1: Pika? All right? Very good, very good, Thank you sir,
Speaker 1: thank you. How random is that? I just like, wait,
Speaker 1: is he from here?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: No, he's a Jersey.
Speaker 3: I sat here the whole time. I'm like, what was
Speaker 3: that guy's name? He was so and I had just
Speaker 3: watched Justin Willman's special on Netflix at the rental and
Speaker 3: then so we told the kids like, oh, let's let's
Speaker 3: see what the entertainment schedule is for the week at
Speaker 3: Seaside and there was a magician listed there and they said,
Speaker 3: is this going to be like Justin Willman? And I
Speaker 3: said probably not. But he was great, like like and
Speaker 3: everything he did mystified me. Where you sit there and
Speaker 3: you're like, how the hell did.
Speaker 1: He do that? And that's the beauty of magic.
Speaker 3: I was really impressed. And it's funny. I probably watched
Speaker 3: the video that he produced, because afterwards I definitely checked
Speaker 3: out some of his stuff.
Speaker 1: But do you do you buy that it's a good
Speaker 1: bachelorette thing?
Speaker 2: If somebody said, you know what, if you were there
Speaker 2: and it happened they like brought out a magician, you
Speaker 2: would think it's fun because you would also think that
Speaker 2: they got somebody who like is making I'm making this
Speaker 2: up right, I'm not a magician, but like they're making
Speaker 2: garters disappear or you know, like they're making their titties
Speaker 2: up here like whatever. But it's not like but if
Speaker 2: they said, hey, what are you doing for your bachelorette party?
Speaker 2: I don't know that you would go, oh, we're getting
Speaker 2: a magician, because I think people would be like, that's lame.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but if you did it, I bet people would
Speaker 1: like it.
Speaker 3: Well, you said this has been growing over the last
Speaker 3: couple of years. Yes, when Kristen was planning her bachelor party,
Speaker 3: did anyone suggest this or read this and some sort
Speaker 3: of brides magazine?
Speaker 1: That is an emphatic note?
Speaker 3: Why is she laughing?
Speaker 1: Because she's laughing at you that you would suggest that
Speaker 1: for her. You just said, I think it would have
Speaker 1: been We weren't invited, No, not at all.
Speaker 3: It's a fun dinner out and then everybody went karaoke.
Speaker 3: How'd you guys play miniature golf?
Speaker 1: They did that before?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's the of the miniature idiots.
Speaker 1: Just where do we drink? Line three? Hi? Elliot the morning?
Speaker 11: Hey, how's it going guys?
Speaker 1: Good? Who's that? This is Andy?
Speaker 11: How y'all doing?
Speaker 1: I am doing great? Are you are? Are you a magician.
Speaker 11: I am not a magician, but I just was at
Speaker 11: my brother's bachelor party in LA and we hired a magician.
Speaker 1: For his bachelor party.
Speaker 11: For his bachelor party.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, was it good?
Speaker 11: It was amazing? Was it really amazing?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 11: We definitely, you know, it was my brother's idea, and
Speaker 11: we all kind of made fun of him for it,
Speaker 11: of course, and yeah, but he actually ended up hiring
Speaker 11: a dude who actually works at Magic Castle there.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's a good deal.
Speaker 4: He was.
Speaker 11: He was a younger guy, I want to say, like
Speaker 11: late twenties, early thirties. His name was Magic John. He
Speaker 11: looked like a magician you think, you know, like came
Speaker 11: in with black clothes, long hair, and then just blew
Speaker 11: our minds with like up close stuff and then like
Speaker 11: long long form tricks like he at the end of
Speaker 11: the day, he basically had someone pull a card and
Speaker 11: then he was like, hey, go check out my Instagram
Speaker 11: and he was holding that car to being like, I
Speaker 11: know you're pulling those cards. He had like posted it
Speaker 11: like two hours before, sitting in front.
Speaker 1: Of the house. Dude, that's amazing. That's see. I love that.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: And it's probably the easiest thing in the world. But
Speaker 2: I loved that.
Speaker 3: Were they all into it? Oh, yeah, happening.
Speaker 1: No, they made fun of him, right, but.
Speaker 11: No, yeah, no, we definitely made fun of him for
Speaker 11: the idea and to.
Speaker 3: Make fun of magicians.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know. We're in Los Angeles. Are there
Speaker 1: any strip clubs here?
Speaker 3: But I'm saying, dude, But secretly, were you like this
Speaker 3: could be cool?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: They wanted to go see titties.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, we we wanted titties. But all we did
Speaker 11: was we never left the house. We just did drugs
Speaker 11: and brought a magician in.
Speaker 1: But afterwards everybody liked it.
Speaker 11: Oh, everyone loved it. We were We were trying to
Speaker 11: figure out how to get him to come to my
Speaker 11: brother's wedding a couple of weeks later, but he wasn't available.
Speaker 1: That's hysterical. That's hysterical.
Speaker 11: We You've told everyone we've known do this. It's super fun.
Speaker 11: It's kind of like, you know, going to a comedy club.
Speaker 11: You never think about doing it, but once you're there,
Speaker 11: he's like, why don't we do this more?
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly, very good. Hey, I appreciate it, Thank you, sir,
Speaker 1: thank you. Yes, who is.
Speaker 3: The magician dressed like Reva McIntyre.
Speaker 1: No, who is Like.
Speaker 2: Who would the community say, the comic not comic, the
Speaker 2: magician community. Who is like in the area like d
Speaker 2: C Richmond, Baltimore, like this area, Like who's the dude right,
Speaker 2: Like who's the one.
Speaker 1: That they're like this guy's gonna make it like up
Speaker 1: and comer?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like who's who is the guy or woman right now?
Speaker 1: Although you know what, we've talked about that before.
Speaker 2: Not a lot of women in magic there really are,
Speaker 2: that's friend, yeah and good the what does that mean?
Speaker 1: No, I just nothing that there aren't more women in
Speaker 1: magic or yeah, no, no, women are good at magic
Speaker 1: according to youear kind of one begets the other, doesn't
Speaker 1: it the h? No?
Speaker 2: No, but who is the like who is the king?
Speaker 2: Who's the goat light? Now of magic in the area?
Speaker 3: I have no idea?
Speaker 1: Don't you want to know? Like who is going?
Speaker 2: Like oh if I could be anybody, Like nobody's going
Speaker 2: who's killing it? It ain't Seth Heurwitz, Like nobody's like
Speaker 2: man if I could be Seth, But.
Speaker 1: Who is it?
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know. I have no clue. I
Speaker 3: know there's something playing that I read about the other
Speaker 3: day in Bethesda. I think it's done this week, but
Speaker 3: there is an illusionist who's doing a show. They're called
Speaker 3: Nothing Up My Sleeve. I don't even know if he's local.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't either.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Roundhouse Theater. I was gonna try to get my
Speaker 3: family to go. Now you're making sounds. Oh, I was
Speaker 3: making stuff disappear. Hi in the morning, Dandy is his name?
Speaker 1: Oh? Works with Elvis's going.
Speaker 3: To work twice because he's a racist?
Speaker 4: Hi?
Speaker 1: Who is this? Hey?
Speaker 7: Is this name?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Hi? Hi?
Speaker 8: Hi?
Speaker 7: This is Amy from Gaithersburg.
Speaker 1: Hi, Amy, Are you a magician?
Speaker 7: I am definitely not a magician. But my friends and
Speaker 7: I saw an illusionist magician last year in New York
Speaker 7: for a bachelorette.
Speaker 1: For a bachelorette party. Was it good?
Speaker 7: Uh, it was pretty good. It was definitely something we
Speaker 7: did spend like maybe six hours afterwards stalking him and
Speaker 7: then trying to figure out how he did.
Speaker 8: All his tricks.
Speaker 3: Oh, what do you mean stocking stalking him online?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Like like so it was very clear that he had
Speaker 7: plants like in his show, and so we were like, Okay,
Speaker 7: we're going to stalk his Instagram and we're going to
Speaker 7: see whose plans are We tried to buy like all
Speaker 7: like buy out one of his shows to see how
Speaker 7: many seats were in the like theater and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: I got.
Speaker 1: Oh, so I'm sorry. I thought, hello, what are we doing?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 7: I thought you was the ringleader.
Speaker 1: I thought you meant like he came to like your
Speaker 1: hotel and did it. But you will.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Have I ever seen Magic Live? Yeah? Wait, you had
Speaker 1: a show.
Speaker 7: It was like it was like it was his show.
Speaker 7: It was like honestly, it was in a basement in Brooklyn,
Speaker 7: which makes it sound way sketchy than it was.
Speaker 1: No, but I.
Speaker 2: Mean listen, what what Oh, I'm sorry he didn't sell
Speaker 2: out Madison Square Garden like that's where No, that's where
Speaker 2: you play?
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, yeah it was awesome. I mean it was awesome.
Speaker 7: We definitely questioned like some of his we were like
Speaker 7: some of his tricks were less than good. But he
Speaker 7: had like he had a video segment. He went outside
Speaker 7: for a minute and like quote unquote talk to people
Speaker 7: on the street like he definitely had it like down
Speaker 7: pat Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean listen, you're downplaying him.
Speaker 2: But you spent six hours talking and thinking about buying
Speaker 2: out his whole show.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, no, totally.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 7: We well, but we're also summer readers, so we like
Speaker 7: have to figure out, like what's going on?
Speaker 1: Say no more?
Speaker 7: Like, oh, my friends are summer readers.
Speaker 1: No more, say no more. All right, very good, very good,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you?
Speaker 3: Did we go ahead?
Speaker 1: Go ahead?
Speaker 3: Did we know al Toto as a kids last team
Speaker 3: did magic at tracks? I don't know if he was
Speaker 3: saying that he's a local magician.
Speaker 1: No, he's not.
Speaker 3: I am the it.
Speaker 1: Guy in dope sic. I made some pills disappear and anyway.
Speaker 1: He chimed in, No, but you know what would be
Speaker 1: fun the magician's room in Vegas.
Speaker 2: No, the the No, No, I'm sure it would be fun,
Speaker 2: but that takes up time.
Speaker 3: No, it's you can pop and pop out. It's it's
Speaker 3: it's a speakeasy.
Speaker 1: So you don't have to go for a performance.
Speaker 3: Well, they have multiple shows, I guess throughout the day.
Speaker 1: Let's go. We could stick our head in. I'll go
Speaker 1: for a drink designed for close viewing. Perfect, so you
Speaker 1: can catch every flourish faint and reveal.
Speaker 2: No, but wouldn't it be fun to do like an
Speaker 2: elliot in the morning, like magic night. Yes, No, I'm
Speaker 2: being serious.
Speaker 3: Kristen's laughing again with the person who is the person
Speaker 3: around here? Right?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean anybody well sets available.
Speaker 2: The he's an opener, okay, Like if there's three openers,
Speaker 2: give you go in first, you got three minutes.
Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on my card, fell.
Speaker 2: No, But to do an Elliot in the morning like
Speaker 2: po Poker Magic Night, I think that would be fun too.
Speaker 1: I think it would be great.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I need a venue. Well, actually not true, I need magicians.
Speaker 1: I got a venue idea for you where Jersey Shore? Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: casino Pierre no, No, but it needs to be it
Speaker 1: needs to be indoors. Yeah.
Speaker 11: I know.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say it on.
Speaker 1: Oh because I'm thinking of a place.
Speaker 3: Also, okay, is yours realistic?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: We could host ours instantly. It sets up perfectly for
Speaker 3: it and has great food and drink as well.
Speaker 1: I got that also, Okay, where's yours?
Speaker 3: Mine is in one oh?
Speaker 1: Mine isn't Tyson's Hi Elliott the morning?
Speaker 10: Hey, good morning?
Speaker 1: Is this me? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Hi?
Speaker 1: Who's this?
Speaker 8: Hey? There?
Speaker 10: This is Amanda. I'm an asset. There's a local magician
Speaker 10: named Brian Curry who specializes in mental magic. He's a
Speaker 10: mentalist and he performs probably about twice a month at
Speaker 10: once It's a Capital Hilton and once up the Hilton Washington.
Speaker 10: I tried to get him to call in, but he's
Speaker 10: out of tom out of family issue. But his website
Speaker 10: is a good Liar dot com and also Brian currymagic
Speaker 10: dot com. He's great.
Speaker 1: How do you know is this missus Curry?
Speaker 10: No, my husband is the works of the Capitol Hilton,
Speaker 10: dresser of events and catering, and he he comes in
Speaker 10: twice a month and has his shows there.
Speaker 1: Really and he's good.
Speaker 10: He's really good. It's it's like mental magic. So it's
Speaker 10: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, like I've seen it on ESPN.
Speaker 10: Hey, what is hating anybody?
Speaker 7: In half?
Speaker 1: They have that guy that always like goes into the
Speaker 1: football team and does stuff and it like the whole
Speaker 1: team's the whole thing of Chris Berman. No, but like
Speaker 1: the whole team thinks it's like voodoo and they're like.
Speaker 2: Swami the Hey, so the the it's like and you said,
Speaker 2: but he's he's on tour right now.
Speaker 1: He's out of town.
Speaker 10: No, he's out of town on a family thing. I
Speaker 10: tried to get him a call in but he does twice,
Speaker 10: so twice a month, once once a month at the
Speaker 10: Capitol Hilton. I think his next show is on the
Speaker 10: twenty eighth, and then another once a month at the
Speaker 10: Hilton Washington.
Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent, Oh, very good.
Speaker 10: Liar dot com. It's his show and you can get
Speaker 10: so good?
Speaker 1: Got it? Got it all right? Very good? Thank you, ma'am,
Speaker 1: thank you. Maybe we put him on our bill, so.
Speaker 3: I got him and Seth. Seth can also drum. There's
Speaker 3: a house stand between sets.
Speaker 1: Can I go to line too? Hi? Ellie at the morning?
Speaker 8: Hey, elliot, it's Peter Wood. How are you?
Speaker 1: Hey, Peter Wood? I am well, thank you? How are you?
Speaker 1: That's a performer's name.
Speaker 8: Well that's why I'm calling it. I am a full
Speaker 8: time professional magician in the area.
Speaker 1: Are you really yes, sir?
Speaker 11: Hey?
Speaker 1: Are you? Would you agree? Let me go? Let me
Speaker 1: back up? Would you agree? Do you get hired for
Speaker 1: a lot of like bachelorette parties?
Speaker 8: It is crazy how much that has increased in the
Speaker 8: last five years. Really not just bachelorette but just you know,
Speaker 8: any sort of that whole millennial experiential crowd. It is
Speaker 8: no longer birthday parties and corporate stuff. There's this whole
Speaker 8: middle market that's opened up.
Speaker 2: Bachelor parties, bachelorette parties, baby showers, like what is that?
Speaker 1: Like Huggies and Chuggies and stuff like that, like all
Speaker 1: that stuff. Yeah, so you get hired for all of that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean and even like you know, I'm getting
Speaker 8: so many requests for twenty something birthday parties that you
Speaker 8: just would not expect that sort of thing.
Speaker 7: But they just.
Speaker 8: Want a cool hang, something that they can all be
Speaker 8: talking about the next day or the next week. You know,
Speaker 8: are you good? Well, I'm no. Brian Curry good Naturally,
Speaker 8: it's funny last caller recommending Brian Curry. I'm gonna give
Speaker 8: him a gold star as well. And then also there's
Speaker 8: a show called The Magic Duel that's two friends of mine.
Speaker 8: They also have a regular show in DC.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a really great community. We all sort of
Speaker 8: know each other. So if I can't do a gig,
Speaker 8: I'll throw it to Brian or he'll do likewise for me.
Speaker 8: So it's a real real great tight knit group.
Speaker 2: Hey, but can I ask you this, Like if you're
Speaker 2: a magician, and I'll just use you and Brian Curry Okay,
Speaker 2: if Brian does a trick or a magic.
Speaker 1: Trick, right, and you see it, do you.
Speaker 2: Like, do you ever see magic and go you understand
Speaker 2: how it's done, but the show around it? Or do
Speaker 2: you ever see something and go I don't have I
Speaker 2: have no idea how they would do that.
Speaker 8: I mean, I think as the more you get into magic,
Speaker 8: that's the high that you're chasing. Is you loved being
Speaker 8: fooled as a kid, but unfortunately the more you know,
Speaker 8: the harder it is to fool you.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 8: If Brian shows me something and I don't know how
Speaker 8: it's done, it brings me so much joy because that's
Speaker 8: just such a special experience that you don't get as
Speaker 8: much the further you get into magic.
Speaker 1: And do you like, do you perform a lot around here?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I mean, so it's my full time gig and I've
Speaker 8: been doing it since I was ten. So I'm a
Speaker 8: based about halfway between Baltimore and d C. So I
Speaker 8: do a lot of work in DC, but then also
Speaker 8: up in the Baltimore area.
Speaker 1: And it was Peter Wood, right, yes, sir, yep, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe we put a.
Speaker 3: Magic show together, The Collector of the Impossible.
Speaker 8: Yes, I've gotten on Penn and Teller two times, which
Speaker 8: was awesome real for that sort of yes, sir, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 8: oh wow.
Speaker 1: I thought you were pulling like a like like a
Speaker 1: scarf out of your sleeve or something.
Speaker 8: I mean I did that when I was ten, I guess.
Speaker 8: But yeah, no, I mean it's but it's also funny,
Speaker 8: like the more you get into it as a business,
Speaker 8: you were definitely running a small business. And a lot
Speaker 8: of my colleague legues are actually part time guys, like
Speaker 8: some of the folks you've had calling in right, and
Speaker 8: they just do it for the love of it, which
Speaker 8: is awesome as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it is. I mean it's an art art form.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, it's a lot of fun. But yeah, if
Speaker 8: you want to put something together, drop us a line, well,
Speaker 8: we'll get a line up together for you.
Speaker 1: All right, Very good, very good. I appreciate it. Hey,
Speaker 1: thank you, sir. I think it'd be awesome too. I
Speaker 1: think we should do it. I think we should, Dian,
Speaker 1: I mean not in lieu of going to Vegas.
Speaker 2: No, but the no, sorry, if you won, we're canceling.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do U magic with people you've never heard of.
Speaker 3: A the A lot of people are as we heard
Speaker 3: about Brian and Peter. They are saying, oh, I've seen them,
Speaker 3: They're great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh no, I brely. Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 2: I think more people know Las Vegas than Peter would.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. But I want to do it.
Speaker 1: Line seven, Chris and I got to get you Vegas.
Speaker 3: A lot of people are also like, where the hell
Speaker 3: is the nine o'clock giveaway?
Speaker 1: It's coming, It's coming. Hi, Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 4: Hey, this is Chris. You guys were looking for some
Speaker 4: local magicians and I got a bunch of calls staying
Speaker 4: to call in.
Speaker 1: Are you good?
Speaker 5: I hope?
Speaker 4: So it is what I do. I'm actually in Philly
Speaker 4: right now working for a company up here.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, like, did you get hired to do like
Speaker 1: a corporate gig?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's my that's my actual, my main thing.
Speaker 1: Good for you. What kind of magician are you?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm a mentalist. My actually went to college and
Speaker 4: got a degree in behavioral analysis, right and well, actually
Speaker 4: it's just a behavioral psyche major. And so I go
Speaker 4: and I train people on perception and negotiation. But I
Speaker 4: also will always throw a show in there too to
Speaker 4: kind of show off some of that stuff, which is
Speaker 4: half of it's real, half of it's bs. But it's
Speaker 4: fun to like mix the two and make them question
Speaker 4: what's real it's not.
Speaker 1: Two things.
Speaker 2: Number One, do you get hired for a lot of
Speaker 2: like bachelor, bachelorette, twenty somethings, birthday parties?
Speaker 1: Like have you seen a huge uptick in that? Dude?
Speaker 4: I bet because O's which I think you were talking
Speaker 4: about earlier, the guy who does all the football, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think he made. Plus he's doing the White House
Speaker 4: correspondent to dinner, so he's like making it, really putting
Speaker 4: it on the map. So I've gotten some requests over
Speaker 4: the years for some of the weirdest stuff, even like
Speaker 4: I'm not even joking. I had a newdest colony reach
Speaker 4: out one time and asked me to do something I.
Speaker 1: Did not do it. Wait, did you have to be naked? Dude?
Speaker 4: I probably was a blackmail operation. And I'm not making
Speaker 4: this up. I really did get like an email asking
Speaker 4: about that. That was That was a weird one. And
Speaker 4: then of course i' back when I was younger, I
Speaker 4: got some bacheorette requests and stuff, but not as much anymore.
Speaker 1: That's cool, that's cool. Yeah, I think we're going to
Speaker 1: put something together. I think it would be fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Man, well it's really it's really popping right now.
Speaker 1: Now is the time people love this stuff.
Speaker 2: That mental like the mentalist stuff has become really really popular.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Man.
Speaker 4: You know when you could try with the with your
Speaker 4: audience is if you just have everybody that's listening just
Speaker 4: quickly in their minds just think of a vegetable, but
Speaker 4: don't say that loud, something something that pops in mind.
Speaker 1: Quick. Wait we're doing what now? We're doing what?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Wait, just okay, hold on, hold on, hold on, I
Speaker 1: wasn't ready. Okay, you want me.
Speaker 2: To think everybody, everybody listening needs to think of.
Speaker 4: Something, Yeah, think of a vegetable, just quickly in your
Speaker 4: mind as a quick vegetable.
Speaker 1: Got it?
Speaker 4: And this is just a cool showcase of the psychology
Speaker 4: here because of our culture. The first one, most people
Speaker 4: are going to have a broccoli pop in their mind.
Speaker 4: But that's not what I'm going for. I'm curious how
Speaker 4: many listeners were thinking of a carrot when I said
Speaker 4: think of a vegetable. You're going to get sixty four
Speaker 4: percent of any audience is going to think of one
Speaker 4: of those two vegetables either broccoli or carrot, and so
Speaker 4: may not affect you if that's not all what you're thinking.
Speaker 1: But no, I remember Ruini saw yeah, Bukini yeah. I said,
Speaker 1: so you got me. All right, dude, hey, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, my friend, thank you, sir. All right, let's
Speaker 1: agree we're going to do something.
Speaker 3: The worst part was I first was like, broccoli, No,
Speaker 3: that's too obvious. Karrot, damn it.
Speaker 1: I went zucchini. I went, honestly, my first one was cauliflower.
Speaker 1: But then I didn't know if that was a vegetable.
Speaker 1: I thought.
Speaker 3: Q cumbrany was like, he's definitely gonna guess that.
Speaker 1: No, by the way, he didn't get it. He got one.
Speaker 3: He actually got both of mine and only said to
Speaker 3: think of one, right,