WEBVTT - Is Magic Real?

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<v Speaker 1>Put your hands together, and we're going to start to

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<v Speaker 1>party and start.

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<v Speaker 2>At the part.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm ready to party.

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<v Speaker 2>The Elvis Duran after Party.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah party podcast, Let's go.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm telling you about going to a surprise party for

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<v Speaker 4>a friend of ours over the weekend.

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<v Speaker 3>Andre. We had a great time and so Alex and I.

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<v Speaker 4>As one of our gifts for him, we brought in

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<v Speaker 4>our favorite magician, John Steescil love him. Yeah, we love John,

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<v Speaker 4>so cool, the nicest guy. We had so much fun

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<v Speaker 4>and we got tanked and we got really pretty. But

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<v Speaker 4>he was doing these tricks and people didn't know.

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<v Speaker 3>Who he was. The people did not know who he was.

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<v Speaker 4>We're skeptical. Okay, I'll watch this guy do a trick,

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<v Speaker 4>and then boom, he does this trick. Cards start flying

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<v Speaker 4>and moving around the room, and he finds a card

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<v Speaker 4>on the ceiling and all this kind of stuff. Then

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<v Speaker 4>people were hooked all night. He was the busiest man

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<v Speaker 4>in show business. And then it's always funny. There's those

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<v Speaker 4>who have to find out how he did the trick

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<v Speaker 4>and those like me who I don't.

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<v Speaker 3>Want to know. It's magic. Let it get too I.

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<v Speaker 4>Can worry about other things, like the next drink at

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<v Speaker 4>the bar. You know, don't you guys love magicians? I

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<v Speaker 4>mean magicians to me, And this isn't so stupid, is

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<v Speaker 4>that magicians are magic. I love that about magicians because

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<v Speaker 4>I just how they do that.

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<v Speaker 3>And I know it's a lot.

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<v Speaker 5>Of practice, because I've tried to do it myself when

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<v Speaker 5>I was a little kid, I wanted to be a magician.

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<v Speaker 3>Didn't work out.

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<v Speaker 5>Because you's gotta spend so much time doing it. You

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<v Speaker 5>don't realize the amount of time John stescil practice. They

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<v Speaker 5>call it the French drop when you make something disappear

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<v Speaker 5>in your hand. It's the amount of He must have

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<v Speaker 5>spent ten thousand hours minimum, learning how to do these

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<v Speaker 5>magic tricks.

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<v Speaker 6>Minimum reason he always learning, too, is always learning stuff.

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<v Speaker 3>He needs to refresh those those tricks.

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<v Speaker 4>Did you see the trick he played on his mother

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<v Speaker 4>during COVID No.

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<v Speaker 3>He his mother lives in Arizona.

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<v Speaker 4>He actually reconstructed his bedroom or a room in his

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<v Speaker 4>house that looks like his bedroom in a hotel room

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<v Speaker 4>in her town in Arizona. And he was facetiming with

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<v Speaker 4>her from this room in his house.

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<v Speaker 3>He says, Mom, I got a great trick for you today.

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<v Speaker 3>She's like oh you do what is it?

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<v Speaker 4>He says, Okay, I'll call you back in five minutes,

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<v Speaker 4>and then he drives around the corner to his mom's

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<v Speaker 4>house with some flowers and she opens the door and

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<v Speaker 4>he's standing right there. In her mind he was in

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<v Speaker 4>his house in New Jersey because it looked just like

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<v Speaker 4>that room. And then he was at her front door

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<v Speaker 4>to say hi during COVID and I I know, but

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<v Speaker 4>you know imagination, you know you if you just think

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<v Speaker 4>it through, you can you can.

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<v Speaker 3>Come up with any great trick, any great illusion. And

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<v Speaker 3>he did.

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<v Speaker 6>See.

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<v Speaker 2>I think about the magicians versus mentalists. Well, magicians call

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<v Speaker 2>themselves illusionists, right, not magicians that stuff. I feel like, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>we could all learn it if we spend enough time,

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<v Speaker 2>because there are tricks to it that they will teach you.

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<v Speaker 2>But the mentalist, how did get in my head?

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<v Speaker 6>How do they do that?

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<v Speaker 2>That is crazy? Remember we had that O's Pearlman guy

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<v Speaker 2>and he guessed my best friend's name and birthday. Even

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<v Speaker 2>if it was just hey, guess that, I would be

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<v Speaker 2>stunned that he did it. But the way he did it,

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<v Speaker 2>where he told me to pick somebody who I'd be

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<v Speaker 2>sad if they didn't come to my birthday party.

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<v Speaker 6>Who would it be?

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<v Speaker 2>Write it down on a piece of paper. He nailed it.

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<v Speaker 2>How how do they do that?

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<v Speaker 3>And why are they not billion?

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<v Speaker 6>And then they put it in like a little envelope

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<v Speaker 6>sometimes and the envelope is sealed.

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<v Speaker 3>Why do you open it up?

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<v Speaker 6>And the answer is there?

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<v Speaker 3>How is that? Or if you cut it?

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<v Speaker 4>You cut a limon in half and it's inside the limit.

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<v Speaker 3>Stuff that freaks me out. Listen the slide of hand stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>I get you could you know, you know people doing

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<v Speaker 1>stuff with their hands, and you know when you're not looking.

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<v Speaker 1>But these these moments where you're tearing up a map

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<v Speaker 1>of the United States and to a zillion pieces, and

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<v Speaker 1>then all of a sudden you're left with Miami and

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<v Speaker 1>then that's what was on the side of the city.

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<v Speaker 3>You were thinking of, How the hell does it get

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<v Speaker 3>to that?

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<v Speaker 5>So I was every once in a while Instagram changes

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<v Speaker 5>its algorithm, right, And for whatever reason, there was the

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<v Speaker 5>algorithm that started showing me how the magicians do these tricks.

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<v Speaker 5>And I get this out of here, don't want to

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<v Speaker 5>you can google it because I saw that one scary.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, I'm not gonna tell you. I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>The guy who does chamber magic, Steve Cohen, does that

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<v Speaker 1>in front and I was sitting in the front row

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm.

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<v Speaker 7>Like, how the hell Yeah, because he's even looking and

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<v Speaker 7>he's angrily tearing up a map of the United States

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<v Speaker 7>in random directions and his one little piece stuck in

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<v Speaker 7>his hands. And then the girl reveals the town Miami,

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<v Speaker 7>and he opens it up and this Miami with the point.

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<v Speaker 3>With his stupid Instagram post. They showed the magic trick,

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<v Speaker 3>and then they turned the camera around and they showed

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<v Speaker 3>how he did it.

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<v Speaker 6>Okay, I want to don't tell us how he did it,

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<v Speaker 6>But were you amazed at how he did it? Or

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<v Speaker 6>were you like, oh my gosh, that makes total sense.

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<v Speaker 3>That's the second. The second it was so simple.

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<v Speaker 5>I didn't even think it could have been done like that,

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<v Speaker 5>and it just ruined it.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't want to know. I don't want to know.

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<v Speaker 4>There's the thing you do want to know, but you

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<v Speaker 4>don't want to know.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to know. Yeah, people did this stuff. They

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<v Speaker 2>would have been killed.

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<v Speaker 3>Which crowd, they would burn you at the state.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, wait, what about what he puts it on like

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<v Speaker 6>his Instagram page and it says like the answer, and

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<v Speaker 6>he was in this room and he says, now go

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<v Speaker 6>to my Instagram page and see the answer to the question.

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<v Speaker 6>And you go there and there.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, funny you mentioned that. It's funny you mentioned.

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<v Speaker 4>That because when we went to see at the mcintrick Hotel.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, it was like the speakeasy magic.

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, we would sit at a table and the magicians

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<v Speaker 4>would rotate or the illusionists whatever would rotate. And there

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<v Speaker 4>was one guy. I became friendly with him and followed

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<v Speaker 4>him on Instagram, And every once in a while I'll

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<v Speaker 4>get an Instagram notification from it and you don't open

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<v Speaker 4>it up, and it's him and it says the Dollar

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<v Speaker 4>Building is in your pocket. It's all the freaky answers,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, for all the people he's doing a magic

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<v Speaker 4>show for.

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<v Speaker 3>At that time, I'm like, and I watched it.

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<v Speaker 2>Time blasted to everyone. The people who reveal how to

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<v Speaker 2>do it. Don't you like get kicked out of the

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<v Speaker 2>Illusionist Guild for doing things like that?

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<v Speaker 5>If I was an illusionist, I would hunt those people down.

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<v Speaker 6>Isn't that why there was the mask Magicians show? Remember?

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<v Speaker 2>And he used to show us how to do everything traders.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, and if you've ever been to the Magic Castle

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<v Speaker 4>in Los Angeles?

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<v Speaker 3>Amazing? Right, I think they do have.

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<v Speaker 4>Like a magician's council. I mean there are well, yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>it's like the Broccoli Council.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, exactly, like you have to do certain things in

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<v Speaker 5>order to be part of the guild.

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<v Speaker 3>I guess it is. And uh, yeah, it was very impressive.

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<v Speaker 5>I would go there random, like Friday and Saturday nights,

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<v Speaker 5>and they would just have rooms that people were practicing magic,

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<v Speaker 5>and then they would do a show at the end

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<v Speaker 5>of the night.

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<v Speaker 3>The food was terrible, he says.

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<v Speaker 4>That place is as haunted as haunted can be.

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<v Speaker 3>It's a very weird, creepy place. Yeah, the magic was cool.

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<v Speaker 2>Also, don't you have to swear like loyalty and allegiance?

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<v Speaker 3>So I thought, so, isn't it like the clowns.

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<v Speaker 6>The clowns have like a something like a club.

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<v Speaker 3>Clown club.

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<v Speaker 2>A lot of those.

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<v Speaker 4>There are a lot of those, scary They've nominate you

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<v Speaker 4>for the club.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm in.

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<v Speaker 6>They all trained together and everything.

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<v Speaker 4>There You go, well, yeah, magicians, let's support our local magicians.

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<v Speaker 4>Let's have a few up on the show. Let's bring

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<v Speaker 4>John Stescol back here because.

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<v Speaker 3>We love him very much. He's a party man. We

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<v Speaker 3>had a good night that was awesome. What I recall

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<v Speaker 3>All right, well we're done, have a beautiful day and

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<v Speaker 3>make every day.

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<v Speaker 6>Imagine ran after party