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Handel On The Law

Marginal Legal Replay

Handel On The Law

KFI AM 640

News

4.3879 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Handel on the Law, Marginal Legal Advice

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0:00.0

This is Handel on the law.

0:18.0

Marginal legal advice, where I tell you, you have absolutely no case.

0:25.1

David Cox, who's a Brit, is suing David Copperfield, claiming he suffered lasting

0:32.1

brain damage and his shoulder injury after he fell on debris during the lucky number 13 illusion.

0:40.1

And during the course of the lawsuit, Copperfield was forced to reveal the secrets behind the trick.

0:47.2

It's one of his most famous trick.

0:50.1

And that's what the judge said.

0:53.3

So lawyers for the magician argued that disclosing how the lucky number 13 illusion works to the public would financially hurt Copperfield, who by the way is worth about $800 million.

1:06.3

The judge said, no, it's not going to hurt you.

1:09.0

Why?

1:09.9

Because about 55,000 people over the course of years have already participated in this trick,

1:16.8

and they know how it works.

1:18.3

By the way, one of those people is me.

1:21.8

I are participated in this trick.

1:25.3

I was chosen out of the audience, and I was done, it was random.

1:29.7

And here is what happens. There is a suspended cage that comes down, big cage, and inside are a

1:37.8

bunch of seats. I think it's eight seats across, it's stadium seating. So there's two rows.

1:44.0

Seats and then behind it eight seats or maybe

1:46.2

eight 10 inches above so you get to see everybody and everybody is handed a flashlight and a

1:54.3

curtain is drawn immediately around the uh around the cage and people are given those flashlights.

2:02.8

They shine them on the cloth.

2:05.9

And then you're told immediately don't.

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