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Episode 19 - Jasper Maskelyne - When Magicians Were Men

Oral Presentations

Chris Wood

Science, Comedy, Education

5.0868 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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And the Ladies and welcome to oral presentations episode 19. Jasper Masculin when

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magicians were men. Now what this episode is going to be Jasper Masculin was a stage magician in London

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prior to World War II. During World War II he went and he applied to be part of the British

0:42.3

Armed Forces to be able to try to use his stagecraft

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techniques to be able to help with camouflaging and deception of enemy forces and we're going to trace

0:52.4

how that unfolded and what things he helped invent and

0:57.0

and create. Now I am a little bit sleeped. I do love the topic of World War II. I haven't let myself do a World War II topic yet and this is kind of like a like almost like a sidebar one for the actual conflict of World War II but I really like it and I like the idea of implementing

1:13.6

like trade knowledge from somewhere else in a setting that nobody else really has it but

1:18.8

you do it because you believe it can work and you think it could be useful. So that's what this episode is going to be.

1:25.0

I am kind of sleep deprived.

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I was up all night.

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I made out with a stinky juggler from Atlantic City.

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So.

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Episode 19 Jasper Maskellin,

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When Magicians were men.

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It's the only time my life I'll be able to say that sentence. I made out with a stinky juggler from Atlantic City and I'm only saying it

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because this podcast isn't about my life.

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It's just about a topic and that I try to be interesting.

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If you're at work or driving or whatever, I try to entertain you, and hopefully you learn something.

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That's the whole point of it.

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And if not, I don't know, I I understand but I say the thing about the

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stinky juggler from Atlantic City because if I was working at a shop and

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