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Speaker 4: I'm telling you about going to a surprise party for
Speaker 4: a friend of ours over the weekend.
Speaker 3: Andre. We had a great time and so Alex and I.
Speaker 4: As one of our gifts for him, we brought in
Speaker 4: our favorite magician, John Steescil love him. Yeah, we love John,
Speaker 4: so cool, the nicest guy. We had so much fun
Speaker 4: and we got tanked and we got really pretty. But
Speaker 4: he was doing these tricks and people didn't know.
Speaker 3: Who he was. The people did not know who he was.
Speaker 4: We're skeptical. Okay, I'll watch this guy do a trick,
Speaker 4: and then boom, he does this trick. Cards start flying
Speaker 4: and moving around the room, and he finds a card
Speaker 4: on the ceiling and all this kind of stuff. Then
Speaker 4: people were hooked all night. He was the busiest man
Speaker 4: in show business. And then it's always funny. There's those
Speaker 4: who have to find out how he did the trick
Speaker 4: and those like me who I don't.
Speaker 3: Want to know. It's magic. Let it get too I.
Speaker 4: Can worry about other things, like the next drink at
Speaker 4: the bar. You know, don't you guys love magicians? I
Speaker 4: mean magicians to me, And this isn't so stupid, is
Speaker 4: that magicians are magic. I love that about magicians because
Speaker 4: I just how they do that.
Speaker 3: And I know it's a lot.
Speaker 5: Of practice, because I've tried to do it myself when
Speaker 5: I was a little kid, I wanted to be a magician.
Speaker 3: Didn't work out.
Speaker 5: Because you's gotta spend so much time doing it. You
Speaker 5: don't realize the amount of time John stescil practice. They
Speaker 5: call it the French drop when you make something disappear
Speaker 5: in your hand. It's the amount of He must have
Speaker 5: spent ten thousand hours minimum, learning how to do these
Speaker 5: magic tricks.
Speaker 6: Minimum reason he always learning, too, is always learning stuff.
Speaker 3: He needs to refresh those those tricks.
Speaker 4: Did you see the trick he played on his mother
Speaker 4: during COVID No.
Speaker 3: He his mother lives in Arizona.
Speaker 4: He actually reconstructed his bedroom or a room in his
Speaker 4: house that looks like his bedroom in a hotel room
Speaker 4: in her town in Arizona. And he was facetiming with
Speaker 4: her from this room in his house.
Speaker 3: He says, Mom, I got a great trick for you today.
Speaker 3: She's like oh you do what is it?
Speaker 4: He says, Okay, I'll call you back in five minutes,
Speaker 4: and then he drives around the corner to his mom's
Speaker 4: house with some flowers and she opens the door and
Speaker 4: he's standing right there. In her mind he was in
Speaker 4: his house in New Jersey because it looked just like
Speaker 4: that room. And then he was at her front door
Speaker 4: to say hi during COVID and I I know, but
Speaker 4: you know imagination, you know you if you just think
Speaker 4: it through, you can you can.
Speaker 3: Come up with any great trick, any great illusion. And
Speaker 3: he did.
Speaker 6: See.
Speaker 2: I think about the magicians versus mentalists. Well, magicians call
Speaker 2: themselves illusionists, right, not magicians that stuff. I feel like, okay,
Speaker 2: we could all learn it if we spend enough time,
Speaker 2: because there are tricks to it that they will teach you.
Speaker 2: But the mentalist, how did get in my head?
Speaker 6: How do they do that?
Speaker 2: That is crazy? Remember we had that O's Pearlman guy
Speaker 2: and he guessed my best friend's name and birthday. Even
Speaker 2: if it was just hey, guess that, I would be
Speaker 2: stunned that he did it. But the way he did it,
Speaker 2: where he told me to pick somebody who I'd be
Speaker 2: sad if they didn't come to my birthday party.
Speaker 6: Who would it be?
Speaker 2: Write it down on a piece of paper. He nailed it.
Speaker 2: How how do they do that?
Speaker 3: And why are they not billion?
Speaker 6: And then they put it in like a little envelope
Speaker 6: sometimes and the envelope is sealed.
Speaker 3: Why do you open it up?
Speaker 6: And the answer is there?
Speaker 3: How is that? Or if you cut it?
Speaker 4: You cut a limon in half and it's inside the limit.
Speaker 3: Stuff that freaks me out. Listen the slide of hand stuff.
Speaker 1: I get you could you know, you know people doing
Speaker 1: stuff with their hands, and you know when you're not looking.
Speaker 1: But these these moments where you're tearing up a map
Speaker 1: of the United States and to a zillion pieces, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you're left with Miami and
Speaker 1: then that's what was on the side of the city.
Speaker 3: You were thinking of, How the hell does it get
Speaker 3: to that?
Speaker 5: So I was every once in a while Instagram changes
Speaker 5: its algorithm, right, And for whatever reason, there was the
Speaker 5: algorithm that started showing me how the magicians do these tricks.
Speaker 5: And I get this out of here, don't want to
Speaker 5: you can google it because I saw that one scary.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm not gonna tell you. I don't know.
Speaker 1: The guy who does chamber magic, Steve Cohen, does that
Speaker 1: in front and I was sitting in the front row
Speaker 1: and I'm.
Speaker 7: Like, how the hell Yeah, because he's even looking and
Speaker 7: he's angrily tearing up a map of the United States
Speaker 7: in random directions and his one little piece stuck in
Speaker 7: his hands. And then the girl reveals the town Miami,
Speaker 7: and he opens it up and this Miami with the point.
Speaker 3: With his stupid Instagram post. They showed the magic trick,
Speaker 3: and then they turned the camera around and they showed
Speaker 3: how he did it.
Speaker 6: Okay, I want to don't tell us how he did it,
Speaker 6: But were you amazed at how he did it? Or
Speaker 6: were you like, oh my gosh, that makes total sense.
Speaker 3: That's the second. The second it was so simple.
Speaker 5: I didn't even think it could have been done like that,
Speaker 5: and it just ruined it.
Speaker 3: I don't want to know. I don't want to know.
Speaker 4: There's the thing you do want to know, but you
Speaker 4: don't want to know.
Speaker 2: I want to know. Yeah, people did this stuff. They
Speaker 2: would have been killed.
Speaker 3: Which crowd, they would burn you at the state.
Speaker 6: Yeah, wait, what about what he puts it on like
Speaker 6: his Instagram page and it says like the answer, and
Speaker 6: he was in this room and he says, now go
Speaker 6: to my Instagram page and see the answer to the question.
Speaker 6: And you go there and there.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, funny you mentioned that. It's funny you mentioned.
Speaker 4: That because when we went to see at the mcintrick Hotel.
Speaker 3: Yes, it was like the speakeasy magic.
Speaker 4: Yes, we would sit at a table and the magicians
Speaker 4: would rotate or the illusionists whatever would rotate. And there
Speaker 4: was one guy. I became friendly with him and followed
Speaker 4: him on Instagram, And every once in a while I'll
Speaker 4: get an Instagram notification from it and you don't open
Speaker 4: it up, and it's him and it says the Dollar
Speaker 4: Building is in your pocket. It's all the freaky answers,
Speaker 4: you know, for all the people he's doing a magic
Speaker 4: show for.
Speaker 3: At that time, I'm like, and I watched it.
Speaker 2: Time blasted to everyone. The people who reveal how to
Speaker 2: do it. Don't you like get kicked out of the
Speaker 2: Illusionist Guild for doing things like that?
Speaker 5: If I was an illusionist, I would hunt those people down.
Speaker 6: Isn't that why there was the mask Magicians show? Remember?
Speaker 2: And he used to show us how to do everything traders.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and if you've ever been to the Magic Castle
Speaker 4: in Los Angeles?
Speaker 3: Amazing? Right, I think they do have.
Speaker 4: Like a magician's council. I mean there are well, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's like the Broccoli Council.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, like you have to do certain things in
Speaker 5: order to be part of the guild.
Speaker 3: I guess it is. And uh, yeah, it was very impressive.
Speaker 5: I would go there random, like Friday and Saturday nights,
Speaker 5: and they would just have rooms that people were practicing magic,
Speaker 5: and then they would do a show at the end
Speaker 5: of the night.
Speaker 3: The food was terrible, he says.
Speaker 4: That place is as haunted as haunted can be.
Speaker 3: It's a very weird, creepy place. Yeah, the magic was cool.
Speaker 2: Also, don't you have to swear like loyalty and allegiance?
Speaker 3: So I thought, so, isn't it like the clowns.
Speaker 6: The clowns have like a something like a club.
Speaker 3: Clown club.
Speaker 2: A lot of those.
Speaker 4: There are a lot of those, scary They've nominate you
Speaker 4: for the club.
Speaker 3: I'm in.
Speaker 6: They all trained together and everything.
Speaker 4: There You go, well, yeah, magicians, let's support our local magicians.
Speaker 4: Let's have a few up on the show. Let's bring
Speaker 4: John Stescol back here because.
Speaker 3: We love him very much. He's a party man. We
Speaker 3: had a good night that was awesome. What I recall
Speaker 3: All right, well we're done, have a beautiful day and
Speaker 3: make every day.
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