The Unwritten Rules of Magic
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
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🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
A magician — or mentalist — never reveals their secrets. But there’s a lot more to the illusion industry than meets the eye. Magician and New York Times puzzle constructor David Kwong joins Pablo to explain how the magic business polices itself like Major League Baseball; whether anyone legally owns a trick; and why he doesn’t claim to actually have superpowers. Also: yellowface, Harry Houdini, spiritualists, burying 52 playing cards in a backyard, professional liars, and the art of trying really, really hard.
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| 0:32.3 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 0:34.5 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:38.7 | These secrets are simple, so you're going to be pissed off when I tell you right after this ad. |
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| 0:49.8 | You're listening to Draft King's Network. Okay, so the reason I'm beginning here by showing you my favorite viral video of Aaron Rogers is because this is about a very different sort of conspiracy. |
| 1:17.5 | In this video from the most recent season of HBO's Heart Knocks, we find the quarterback sitting inside a crowded auditorium at the New York Jets practice facility, holding a deck of cards, and talking to a magician. |
| 1:30.2 | I want you to hold the cards up, and I want you to look through those cards. |
| 1:33.5 | I want you to look through and just think of any one of those cards you see. |
| 1:39.2 | Ice cold under pressure. I like what I'm seeing. |
| 1:42.3 | The magician is a guy named O's the Mentalist, who tells Rogers to then clasp both hands |
| 1:47.4 | very tightly around this deck of cards, at which point he proceeds to read Aaron's mind. |
| 1:53.7 | Think red, black, think hearts, diamonds, club, spades. |
| 1:55.9 | See that reaction, that flinch? |
| 1:57.1 | I know which way you're throwing the ball. |
| 1:58.6 | It's a diamond. |
| 1:59.6 | Am I right? |
| 2:00.6 | Yeah. I'm going to do you one better than guess it. I'm going to find it. Hold your hands tight. Don't take it out. Don't move. Don't move. Let me reach in just a little. I'm going to go there. I'm going to go there. I'm going to go there. Tell us all out of that whole deck. Don't move. What card do you think of? Say it. Three of diamonds. Oh, hold on, hold on. And at this point, the magician has another trick up his sleeve, because he turns to the guy sitting right next to Rogers, who is the Jets' safety's coach, and he tells that guy to think of an animal. |
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