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The Millionaire's magician, Steve Cohen.

Yeah!

Now, why do they call you the Millionaire's magician?

Well, I don't check people's bank balances at the door.

But a lot of my audiences over the years have been wealthy New Yorkers,

and a media outlet called me that one time and it just stuck.

By the way, if you go see Steve's performance, it is a formal event.

Why do you find that important for an evening of magic?

Okay, so I dress in a black tie and tails, but it's really just like cocktail attire.

We want people to have a very festive evening.

It's in this really beautiful old Victorian style, Gilded Age mansion.

And so if you come there dressed up in flip-flops and shorts, you know, you're going to really feel out of place.

So what people like to do is they can make it a whole evening.

You're in a Gilded-age mansion. People get dressed up. Women wear evening attired, gowns sometimes. But, you know, really, it's not, again, we're not going to turn people away if

you're wearing just casual clothes, but you would feel uncomfortable.

So it sounds like it's a show and a show. And you're setting the pace for this magical evening. I'm assuming there's some candles involved. You've got this beautiful set. You're taking us to a different time as well. It really is a ton of a step back in time. I love that. I think of the, the show is at the Lote New York Palace Hotel. So it's like I said, it's a gilded Age Mansion. It's the first Gilded Age mansion in New York City to have electric power. It was built in the 1890s, right? So, you know, you've got, the wires were hand installed by Thomas Edison, right? So this is the type of building that you're in. And if you ever walk past it, you might just not have... Actually, the best way to put it is, if you ever saw the TV show, Gossip Girl, they filmed Gossip Girl in that hotel. Oh, wow. So if you guys, maybe you guys watch, I never watched Gossip Girl, so I couldn't tell you. But so, like, it's really, it's a special place to visit. And it's not just a magic show, which, you know, of course, that's what I'm putting on. but it's the whole experience of walking into this step back in time. Love that.

I'm putting on. But it's the whole experience of walking into this step back in time. Love that. I'm sure ghosts are involved in that dwelling as well. I even include one of the ghosts in my show. Oh. Are you going to show us a trick with a ghost? Because this building doesn't have any ghosts. I don't know. Magic is best performed after dark, in my opinion. So Steve Cohen, the Millionaire's Magician, is about to perform something for us, a very special something just for us. But I mean, you've been a New Yorker for your entire life? Yeah, yeah. So I grew up in Westchester. I went to school in Chappaqua. Actually, I've got a a great story which is about z100 oh where we are right now yeah we are right now the haunted radio station maybe it's only haunted because you're here what when they can me my ghost will continue to come into a show um so so basically um like i said i grew up in westchester when I was a kid, going back over 40 years, I was driving to school one morning. And my brother and I used to listen to Z100 every morning. Right. And who was the host back then? Scott Shannon. Scott Shannon. It was Scott Shannon. I remember his name. And so he or one of the people in the crew that day had announced a contest.

And the contest was if we name your birthday and you're the first caller, then call us in and we'll give you $1,000 in cash.

So my brother and I are driving along wondering, you know, maybe they'll call our birthday.

So Scott Shannon or whoever it was said, okay, if your birthday is February first, be the first caller and we'll give you $1,000. And my brother and I went, holy crap, that's my birthday. My birthday is February the 1st. Right. And so, again, this is 40 years ago. No one has cell phones, right? They hadn't been invented yet. What did you do? So I pulled over, screeched to a halt, ran up to someone's house, okay, in Westchester.

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