The Unwritten Rules of Magic | PTFO
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- A magician - or mentalist - never reveals their secrets. But there’s a lot more to the illusion industry than meets the eye. Magician and New York Times puzzle constructor David Kwong joins Pablo to explain how the magic business polices itself like Major League Baseball; whether anyone legally owns a trick; and why he doesn’t claim to actually have superpowers. Also: yellowface, Harry Houdini, spiritualists, burying 52 playing cards in a backyard, professional liars, and the art of trying really, really hard.
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Pablo, you've created my favorite show.
The phrase, "professional magish" is now forever burned into my personal lexicon.
I can't believe this wasn't the episode where Pablo used Gas Bag Magic.
Podcast subscriber but I had to come to the video to watch Pablo’s face for the torn corner trick
You’re awesome dude
I loved this episode. Its officially entered the GOAT conversation and undoubtedly on the MT Rushmore of PTFO episodes.
It’s painful that this channel only has 90k subs. All these episodes are bangers.
Rule 1. Never let no one know how much dough you hold… wait I think I may have the wrong song.
That Masked Magician clip just brought me back to being 11 again. No streaming. Couldn't watch clips on youtube. Had to catch it when it aired or hope for a rerun. On a 27" tv the size of a small refrigerator. Good times.
Wow, this actually explains why Gob was such a bad magician (to use an allusion)
Best episode yet!
Sooooo fun! Another great episode.
I love PTFO, but this one was especially awesome!
So much is the story/banter! Love this episode. Thank you!
So they did not discuss this. Nerds invariably get a frisson from a gathering of the like-minded but the atmosphere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater this past weekend was one of uncommonly giddy excitement as big-brained dating couples and families discovered that here was a show that would not only teach you how to create a New York Times-style crossword puzzle but reveal enough secrets about Scrabble and Words With Friends to allow for future triumphs featuring one BINGO after another. I thought one kid in the room was going to melt into the floor with excitement at all the new arrows that had just been loaded into his quiver.
Better yet, the show actually contains do-it-yourself puzzles, the solving of which was billed as a prerequisite for entering the theater (arrive early!). Compassion was shown to those of us whose neurons cannot regularly be trusted to fire in a timely fashion. All of this comes courtesy of the brainiac performer David Kwong, whose self-penned 90-minute show is billed as an offering of an “intellectual brand of magic.”
Awesome podcast. I couldn't do the backyard trick cause there is no way I could remember where all the cards were.
Great ep. Pablo!
I still miss Ricky Jay, who it appears from David's Wikipedia entry was an important influence. Such a great actor, magician and historian.
I’m first view and first comment! Katie killed on Celebrity Jeopardy! last night… Congratulations to her!
49:12 I’m no genius. He got me with every single trick but I was wondering why is he showing how to put a piece in a pocket? Lol
Gifting that book right now
Already performed the trick!
But the greatest trick is selling an unwritten book even tho 99% is written by others
We all can learn
Of ALL THE EPISODES to use the Gasbag Magic option on the graphic and it’s STILL Pablo Explains…
Imagine David's hand in the last handshake was actually just cake! 😂🤯
Wait, on the backyard thing. If the guy picked the card and the location, how did they make sure that he found his card under the bushes and not just some other card
“2 o’clock “ - means they arranged/buried the cards systematically in the backyard. They pointed and guided the director to the place where the card he chose is.
I believe they buried each card in different location. So when he says his card they know that one is buried under the rose bush and not by the tree or in the flowers and tell him to dig there.
6:18 thats gotta make any dad smile.
Pablo legit went pale at the card tricks hahaha physically sickened by being tricked
unwritten rules are the most annoying thing ever for an autistic person like myself. makes no sense. no hating on magicians though, they rule. ive watched penn and teller since i was a kid
Same note too.
@@datAuDHDbeard saw them in person great show. After the show they will take pictures and sign autographs. Penn has a great podcast as well
I thought Pablo was learning how to play Magic: The Gathering. Stupid me, every nerd already knows how to play Magic.
Sounds like most of these mentalist tricks (like the one in the director's backyard) could go wrong at any moment. Like what if he agreed to go to the driveway??
Pablo should do this to Nick Wright
Exact opposite trajectory for me, my Dad, a very smart EE, told me he didn’t understand Biochemistry articles in Science Mag, so I got my Ph.D. in that. . I avoided fields where lying is a major component, like acting, law and “Magicians”.
Is not a magic trick..... IT'S AN ILLUSION!
tricks are what whores do for money
Magicians are magicians. Illusionists are illusionists. 😉
I bet the movie Edgar Wright was working on was Ant-man before he left.
There wasn't enough Arrested Development Gob references in this comment thread.
How could this podcast not mention Banachek!?
There is no difference between "clicks" and his book, or a show. It's all a performance looking for attention and above all money.
I thought this was going to be about magic cards
Commander?
@@teranmm no lol as in magic, the gathering
@@TheoneandonlyRAH lol yeah commander is a new mtg system/decks.
@@teranmm Commander isn't new, it's almost as old as MTG itself
Right off the bat, FINE. Oz isn't a magician, he's a mentalist. Two completely different things. Cmon Pablo.