168. Think Like a Child

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🗓️ 22 May 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to generating ideas and asking questions it can be really fruitful to have the mentality of an eight year old.

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0:00.0	And today's program, we begin with a magic show.
0:10.0	Because if there's ever a medium that's made for magic, it's radio, right?
0:15.0	Hey guys, how you doing?
0:18.0	The magician's name is Alex Stone.
0:20.0	Okay, so I'm going to start out with something really simple.
0:23.0	Maybe some of you have seen it, maybe haven't, and then we'll go from there and maybe get a little more sophisticated and more complicated.
0:28.0	And the audience is kids, a bunch of middle schoolers from IS 318 in Brooklyn.
0:33.0	You're seeing this or not, but I'm just going to take a handkerchief here. Do you want to check it out?
0:37.0	Make sure it's normal. Nothing weird.
0:41.0	I only blew my nose in it, like just once.
0:44.0	Ah, it's okay.
0:45.0	With the thumb of his right hand, Stone stuffs a handkerchief into his left hand, and then...
0:50.0	Yeah, you've seen this before. It disappears.
0:54.0	But then he reaches behind one kid's ear and pulls out that.
0:59.0	If I reach out, there it is. I think I can catch it, see?
1:02.0	Did you feel that come out of your ear?
1:04.0	Um, no.
1:06.0	Where did it come from?
1:08.0	I don't know.
1:13.0	Now they try to figure out the trick.
1:16.0	Does anybody have any guesses?
1:18.0	His sleeve.
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