last night we went to a magic castle let’s talk about that hey wire 1999 here from Scotland good mythical morning good mythical morning welcome to the show and by show I don’t mean magic show I mean good mythical morning but we’re going to talk about a magic show or a series of magic shows that we attended last night okay is it yeah this is hot off the presses people fresh experience straight from us beaming through your internet into your soul well so ever since we moved to Los Angeles we’ve had people you know you there’s a lot of stuff to do here in this town and you ask people what should I do I’m new here why meanwhile should what do you do for fun here what should we do where do we go who do we hang out with what is my purpose I mean it usually doesn’t get that far but it’s like do you use that voice what should I do with my life where can I see famous people yeah really what you’re asking but really it’s about my parents being in town really it’s what it really boils down to is that my parents they came downtown and they were like what should we do who should we see what is my purpose and I said you know typically our lives are pretty boring we don’t do a lot to entertain ourselves we spend a lot of time entertaining you and boring but wait but no it’s great so I love it but when my parents come into town it’s like we got to show him a good time I mean you’ve got to show him a good time and so one of the first things that came up was hey you remember that Magic Castle heard about it you know a lot lots of people over time we’ve told us oh you should go to the Magic Castle the Magic Castle ah okay what Magic Castle I’m not really there is it what’s up here with is this up to it are we talking Disneyland here yeah um well it turns out that there is this old hotel like basically in the heart of Hollywood that you can go to think it is Members Only or you got to know someone who can get you in very exclusive and you have to like be dressed up like you issue you have to wear a tie or they see on the website that you could wear a bolo tie yep so a couple of those which I you know I’m always looking for an opportunity to wear my bolo tie or a turtleneck which is what my dad wore my dad did the old turtleneck and blazer because you know he didn’t know that he was gonna be wined and dined like this when he came to visit us he didn’t know he’s gonna go to the Magic Castle so he didn’t have a tie he’s like but I do have a turtleneck so I don’t know why you brought a turtleneck dad but I’m glad you did because it made it easier in California you need to bring that turn on that it might get cold on the beach this time of year cookie I need to turn like if you’re going on the beach yeah so we go to the Magic Castle last night and let me tell you we had a memorable experience now I didn’t know what to expect because in talking to people I knew that it would it cost $20 you have to know somebody and then it still cost $20 to get in just 4x plus like 4 or $8 valet I mean this and then you still got to buy dinner I mean it’s not that bad I mean it’s there’s a lot of entertainment I’m not used to paying $20 to get in anywhere just to turn on and spend more money on Mike I’ve been dieting I’ve been charging you 20 bucks every every morning you’re the door charge here you’re drafting my accountant I don’t anything about I have direct access and then people would say oh but you need to go it’s totally worth it everybody should do it once and I’m like well I don’t know how to take that does that mean everybody should do it or once you do it once you’ll never want to do it again that’s how we have the answer now we do but they don’t so we walked in looking very good I thought I look great I look like I was going to a funeral you know I have a dress pants on I have one pair of dress pants and I wore it they’re actually corduroys if you consider that dress pants let’s not let’s not yell on what we were wearing can we get to the magic and I walk in and I see that it’s like a meandering layout like you’re walking through the Biltmore House or something but there’s like a haunted mansion there’s all kinds of pictures of magicians and then I would okay your dinner reservation is eight o’clock but there’s a show starting now and then there’s a show there and you can do some close-up magic and the close-up guy like there’s magic everywhere you basically walk in a direction and you’ll walk into a magic show well you’ll walk into a room with a magic show right you don’t actually hit a magic show so the first place we go before we dinner is the close-up room the close-up room Open Sesame so we go in there and there is I would say the guy was probably 67 that’s pretty years old a cure it he had like grey hair on the sides kind of Baldy and he was just hunched over this this green top card table type thing and there’s not like this card table was fancy three rows of people three rows of six that’s 18 people and we sit down in the front row boom and I am a writer so I am right in front of this guy like I could have reached out and like caressed his nose I’m glad you didn’t I really wanted to whenever I see a magician that close I’m like dang I want to caress your now magicians don’t let you do that though they go they get away or their nose disappears I hate it when that happens but he started this thing of course he brings out the cards and he starts asking people who they are and of course links right in front of him he talks to Christy first my why she’s better-looking than you are yeah and and he’s like well she uh she named Christy is what’s your name link and then my dad makes the missing link joke and they says you guys are related he’s just know just known him forever and then he begins to incorporate you into some of his tricks yeah I disappeared at one point I was sawed in half at another point no he just he pulled out the the nuts and the pea thing you know it’s like you know they do this on the street in you know to kind of rip you off with the walnuts and the pea you were there ready oatmeal is the old cup trick now this was this is basically his first trick and I found out something interesting was going on psychologically in my mind really I was faced with a decision because I knew what was happening I was like I actually use my finger and I was pointing where that I knew that P was gonna go and I was convicted oh you’re a pointer when I low your hand I was convinced really that’s a condition yes I was convinced I knew where the P was after he moves it around remember brains all right where’s I knew where that P was pushes it and I also knew that he was a good magician but I didn’t want to get I I thought I know where it was and I decided should I should I say where I think it is or should I guess somewhere else and potentially expose him as an amateur magician right off the bat and I found out I was more concerned about not exposing him than actually legitimately guessing but the thing you didn’t understand what I was like this one and then of course the I was wrong but that made him right so I felt good but he’s always gonna be right though that’s the thing it doesn’t matter what when you point at he has the P and so he’s going to be like nope nope and then he’s he has it it’s not under one of those he’s putting it under and revealing it at the same time he’s a magician man but then fat in control but I don’t know that’s true because it I just found an interesting that I cared more about I bought a magnet a one time him saving face then in me actually getting it right then I’ll change because then he did this really elaborate trick well by the end like right end of his show into the show he takes out these he’s basically got a bunch of cards that he has they worked up they got both cards he’s ripped that he has ripped up right he has jumbo cards that he’s ripped up yep and then he gives us all four cards that were in sealed packet sealed bags he’s like take me take the dough just do your signal right it’s fine some bacon that’s what I do what you need to kill us with a knife no problem as long as you don’t throw like one of those new shows where this things does things are going on here people are bidding Baalak of the fact that things are happening so here’s what’s not symbolic it’s actually something that something is happening so woman looking for a knife so then he’s like okay I want you to take those cards I want you to rip them a half then I want you to take them again and ripping them half again now you got four halves now I want you to take those and mix them up now I want you to take one out of the middle and set it on the the the cart that the seat over to the next to you now I want you to take one and put it in the middle Knight once you take one and throw it on the floor all this totally random stuff and it went on for like two or three minutes and I was like I thought in the middle of this what we are doing right now is to all a diversion and doesn’t matter at all and I know you thought the same thing and so this is when you decided that you were what I’m not well I’m not gonna say what I decided let’s just see what happens okay and it’s amazing he’s like throw this on the ground put this underneath and then he was like now take the one the two cards that are left in your hand that you ripped apart before and everyone turns them over and is like ah and it was the same two pieces of the one card that had been ripped up like years ago yeah they matched which was phenomenal and I was like how did he do it and of course he says now raise your hand if your cards don’t match and all about of all these 18 people two people raised their hand my mom and Link and your mom was upset and I was like got him ha ha you know here’s what at one point in all of this the things gonna do this do this throw it over do this at one point I just skip to stuff I was like because I had your theory no matter what I do the P is going to be in his hand and you’re going to make it work there’s no way you could do it for this so to speak but then it didn’t work which is makes it in my mind makes it that much more amazing the fact that you violated the rule and it didn’t work makes it that much more amazing to all these ridiculous rules that seem so random actually led to the right outcome but talk about even more amazing is the final show uh Rick Thomas we got a picture of this guy with he has a white tiger on him like Michael Jackson did on an album cover he had no white tiger at last night’s show though he did have a pretty woman with Tara Tara won’t soon forget Tara but also won’t soon forget Rick Thomas because Rick Thomas is the quintessential old-school magician the Duke comes out in this like magicians thing like a roughly thing and then bam bam he’s pulling birds out the real bird I was laughing with exhilaration because of every time the bird would come out one time he took a bird real birds and pulled it in half me it was two birds yeah he would have Burton hat does it he does that he has his a magician sometimes he’ll do this he would stick his tongue between his teeth yeah I would go to school in fact I haven’t told you this I am so impressed with the birds and the look that I’m thinking about going to Micah magic school and then at the end of got classes there know at the end when they want it when he wanted you to applaud he would do this he would open it he would put his hands out and he’d open his mouth like this ha ha ha ha and that was like Oh Rick Tom applause is the best ever he gave a speech about his mom he said follow your dreams Linc his whole thing was about following your dreams and he was like theme his shell was he brought a woman on stage and like did a trick with her and then at the end he like brought her close and said follow Eugene yes like any like period totally serious I loved it so much follow your dream I don’t care what you do in life as long as you followed he wasn’t that sinister he was pretty nice he looked like Wayne Newton yeah yeah yeah no you very much seemed like Wayne dude it was anyway go to the Magic Castle once all right I’ll go back if Rick’s Thomas is gonna be there I I will go anywhere for Rick Thomas Rick Thomas if you’re watching thank you for following your dreams I’m gonna get lockjaw so we get TMJ from I couldn’t be resting is a werewolf Rhett is a werewolf this is quite a magic trick we’re gonna need some AK that’s really believable ladies and gentlemen I present to you the werewolf