Puzzles & Magic all in one?! Must be David Kwong
At Home with Linda & Drew Scott
Drew Scott
4.6 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
David Kwong brings some puzzling fun to us At Home!
David Kwong is a magician, puzzle creator, writer and producer.
He has created illusions for film and television, including Now You See Me, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, and The Magnificent Seven.
If you do the New York Times crossword puzzles, you may have come across (and maybe stumped by?) his clever work — Kwong is a frequent crossword contributor along with infamous crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz.
We are put to the test with some games and along the way, we learn about his home life and how he combined his two nerdy passions, magic and puzzles, into one career.
Connect with David:
IG: @DavidKwong
https://www.instagram.com/davidkwong/
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| 0:00.0 | I had these two parallel interests, magic and puzzles, |
| 0:03.9 | and it actually wasn't until later in life that I realized that I could fuse them together |
| 0:10.1 | and cross-pollinate them and create a new type of performance, a new type of magic show |
| 0:15.9 | in which I say, all magic tricks are puzzles. |
| 0:20.1 | See if you can figure them out. |
| 0:22.1 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello. |
| 0:25.2 | Welcome to At Home with Linda and Drew, a magical place where we chat with artists, experts, |
| 0:30.1 | dreamers, and doers about what makes us feel most at home. |
| 0:34.6 | Home is a magical place. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm trying to think of the most magical spot. |
| 0:39.2 | My chest. Can you sleep on my chest? |
| 0:41.2 | Oh, wow. |
| 0:42.3 | Linda lays on my chest and she is out cold. |
| 0:45.0 | That is magical. |
| 0:45.7 | Yeah, I think you lace it with something. |
| 0:48.6 | No, I'm wearing lace. |
| 0:50.4 | It's just so sexy. It feels like home. |
| 0:52.6 | This is at home. |
| 0:53.8 | This is at home. |
| 1:02.4 | All right. |
| 1:03.5 | We're doing this, Linda. |
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