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Hardy took his love of magic from the libraries of suburban Detroit, Michigan,

to national touring companies with live animals in tow and everything else.

We found out a lot about Hardy this morning, more than I've ever known.

It was the love of juggling, and then it kind of branched out from there.

Yeah, juggling is like a gateway drug.

Exactly.

And, you know, I used to have a button that I wore on my jacket that said, get high on juggling.

Because balls are in there.

They're very high sometimes.

You know, you throw them way up there.

Sometimes.

Not every time.

Sometimes.

But he was really.

He was in St. Louis juggling.

And he was assistant to two beautiful women in their 20s.

The Diamond Sisters, we've learned so much about Hardy.

Yeah, yeah.

And John still, John, his whole Shazawa's Blackstone Magic Kick seems very, where did you perform, John? I performed at the Hooters and Saugas. No, no, no, no. Where did you perform before we made you do magic again? When you actually were doing it out of the love of it. No, no, no, no, I never did that. No, I would never... No, no, did you go to, like, an old folks home or something? No, no, no.

You just sit in your house? Yes. Just for your parents? Yeah. So you never even, you never even went like and did it in public? Nope. So Hardy's the only one who did it in public. Right. Okay. I stand before you, John Wallach, magician. All right. And so you did have the Blackstone kid.

Yes.

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