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Today, Explained

Do you believe in magic?

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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A Los Angeles magician struck gold with a glorified Zoom meeting. Some are asking if he’s figured out how to save theater. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Think You Know Disney Plus? Think Again?

0:06.0

Stream everything from the galaxy's greatest adventures like the Mandalorian.

0:10.0

Oh, may the force be with you!

0:15.0

This is the way...

0:16.0

To the darkest biographical dramas like Welcome to Chippendales.

0:20.0

You're a bare man, Mr. Bermany.

0:22.0

You're 18 nothing yet.

0:24.0

Think You Know Disney Plus? Think Again?

0:26.0

18 Plus subscription required, season C's apply.

0:30.0

It's today explained, I'm Sean Rommas firm.

0:36.0

We've done plenty of shows on how COVID has derailed our lives from working remotely to education,

0:42.0

to the impacts on all aspects of the economy, rent, sports, the movies.

0:47.0

Some of these shows have had elements of hope in them, but none of them have had much magic.

0:52.0

Today, we're going to fix that with the story of one guy in Los Angeles

0:56.0

who took his pandemic lemons and made lemonade so good

1:00.0

that people think he might have figured out a way to save an entire industry.

1:05.0

His name is Helder Gimaris.

1:08.0

Yes, so my line of work is very different than what people imagine when they think about the magician

1:16.0

because I mix stories with magic.

1:20.0

The hardest part of a show is putting it up for me.

1:23.0

You know, like, it's always like where you have to find all those

1:27.0

the pieces of the puzzle to put everything together and make it work.

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