Nelson Lugo: A Simple Magic Trick
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2014
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Nelson Lugo has a brilliant idea for his grade school talent show -- use chemistry to do a simple magic trick. It did not go over well. Nelson Lugo is a Magician, Sideshow Artist, and Batman enthusiast. He was featured by TimeOut NY as a New York Entertainer to Watch and co-hosts a podcast called "The EPIC PIEcast" for NerdyShow.com. He's been a guest speaker for The Sunday Assembly NYC, a guest singer for the BTK Band, an invited storyteller at Adam Wade's Whatever Happened to the Nerds as well as for the Five Boro Story Project, and was featured on the Story Collider podcast. He is currently performing a solo show called "Gathering The Magic" at The Tank Theater NYC -- which you can see on Sept 20th.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.8 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.6 | I felt... |
| 0:07.4 | I was so... |
| 0:08.7 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:09.6 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.8 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:26.5 | Hey, everyone. I'm Ben Lilly. And welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
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| 0:44.8 | This week's story is from Nelson Lugo. |
| 0:49.2 | The story is recorded in August 2014 at Littlefield in Brooklyn. I have been practicing magic pretty much for the entirety of my life, |
| 1:00.5 | but the first seven years of my educational life were spent in a very Roman Catholic school called St. Philip Neri. |
| 1:09.8 | As it turns out, St. Philip Neri is actually the patron saint of joy. |
| 1:15.1 | He would often follow a blessing with a joke. This school, however, was not a joke. It had granite spires and stained glass windows, and the principal was a joyless Franciscan monk by the name of brother |
| 1:29.5 | Brian. |
| 1:31.0 | And this guy, he wore the brown robe and the hooded cow and the rope belt. |
| 1:34.6 | This guy was the real deal. |
| 1:36.6 | This was a very serious school for very serious Catholics. |
| 1:43.4 | I was not a serious Catholic. I was that kid. I was that annoying |
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