LAist Studios presents Imperfect Paradise: The Castle: Part 2

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LAist Studios

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4.2 • 887 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Part 2: Once inside the iconic members-only Magic Castle, queer hobbyist magician Carly Usdin starts to become disillusioned with the club. LAist Senior Producer Natalie Chudnovsky dives into how this comes to a head in 2020, when the Magic Castle faces allegations of racism and sexism.

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0:00.0	Alayas and show and tell present an evening with Fran Leibowitz.
0:04.4	Author, journalist and social observer will take the stage Wednesday, September 25th at the
0:08.8	Multibon Theater. Tickets and information at LAAS.com slash events.
0:16.0	If you want to stay engaged with your world wherever you are and whatever you're doing,
0:20.4	count on us. We're L.A.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.A. is Studios.
0:45.0	Hey, this is In Perfect Paradise from L.A. Studios.
0:48.0	I'm your host, Antonia Cerejido.
0:50.0	This is the Castle Part 2.
0:52.0	Last episode, we met Carly
0:54.2	Houston and learned about how they got obsessed with a members only club in
0:58.3	Hollywood called the Magic Castle and spent a whole year learning magic to access the space.
1:04.4	It felt like you were back in time in a place where like almost everyone there's an older white
1:08.6	cis heterosexual man.
1:10.8	It's their world that you're stepping into.
1:13.0	And Carly was excited to be part of changing the castle
1:16.0	by bringing their friends and maybe even starting a club for queer magicians.
1:21.0	Coming up on the show, in the wake of George Floyd's murder and protests in 2020,
1:26.6	Carly reaches a breaking point.
1:29.4	And the Magic Castle faces a reckoning. I still to this day will not enter the building alone.
1:37.0	We are not a truck with an engine.
1:40.0	We are one wheel on a radio flyer wagon squeaking a little bit in the distance,
1:47.6	hoping someone will listen.
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