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Elvis Duran's After Party

Is Magic Real?

Elvis Duran's After Party

Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

News, After Shows, Comedy, Entertainment News, Tv & Film

4.8950 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Today, the crew talks about some fun magic tricks and if it's worth it to find out how the magician performed them.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed human.

0:05.8

Get your hands together.

0:07.2

We're going to start to party.

0:09.3

I'm ready to party.

0:11.0

The Elvis Duran After Party.

0:15.3

The After Party podcast.

0:18.9

Let's go.

0:21.0

Yeah! Yeah! I was telling you about going to a surprise party for a friend of ours over the weekend, Andre. We had a great time. And so Alex and I, as one of our gifts for him, we brought in our favorite magician, John Stessel. Love him. Yes. He loves John, right? Yeah, he's awesome. The nicest guy. We had so much fun and we got tanked and we we got really pretty

0:40.8

But he was doing these tricks, and people didn't know who he was, the people that did not know who he was, were skeptical, okay, I'll watch this guy do a trick, and then boom, he does this trick, cards start flying and moving around the room, and he finds a card on ceiling and all this kind of stuff. Then people were hooked all night. He was the busiest man in show business. And then it's always funny, there's those who have to find out how he did the trick and those like me who I don't want to know. It's magic. Let it go. I can worry about other things, like the next drink at the bar, you know? Don't you guys love magicians? I mean, he's one of my favorites. Magicians to me, and this isn't so stupid, magicians are magic. I love that about magicians. Because I just, how they do that, and I know it's a lot of practice because I've tried to do it myself. When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a magician, didn't work out because you've got to spend so much time doing it.

1:33.3

You don't realize the amount of time John Stessel practice, they call it the French drop when you made something disappear in your hand.

1:40.6

It's the amount of, he must have spent 10,000 hours minimum, learning how to do these magic tricks.

1:48.5

Minimum.

1:48.9

And isn't he always learning too?

1:50.6

Is he always learning new stuff?

1:51.9

Yeah.

1:52.1

He needs to refresh those tricks.

1:53.8

Did you see the trick he played on his mother during COVID?

1:58.4

No.

1:59.9

He, his mother lives in Arizona.

2:03.3

He actually reconstructed his bedroom or a room in his house.

2:08.1

It looks like his bedroom in a hotel room in her town in Arizona.

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