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Welcome to softcore History. Welcome back
to softcore History. I'm your host for

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the week Damn Rechester, and I
am joined as always by Rob Fox and

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Jake Goldman. What is up?
Boys? Oh? You know, just

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being chilly? You know? Did
you know? Yeah, for the listeners,

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did you know that our studio doesn't
have heating? The studio is currently

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forty six inside. Is it really
that cold in here? Yeah? I

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knew. I fucking knew. When
I was leaving the house, I was

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like, okay, I was like
putting on like my peak coat and stuff,

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and I was like, wait,
wait, whatever, whatever jacket I

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put on, I'm gonna need to
keep on. So I swiped on.

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Yeah, swapped out to my thick
ass. Yeah. It's a once in

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a lifetime storm that happens every year. Now yep, well this year it's

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because of Elmino. I thought it
was the polar vortex. Is that what

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we are? It's polar bortex?
Yeah, twenty five degrees again, not

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that bad, it's magic. Yeah. I would play outside in this weather.

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We're from St Huish, shut up, shut up, No one cares.

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I know he's from phil No one
cares. Isn't there signs behind it

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actually being colder here and in Florida
because of the humidity. Mm hmm,

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well with the precipitous when it gets
cold here, yeah, like Florida colds

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a different cold bites. It's like
a Florida fifty is still somehow worse than

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a Philly twenty. I would say, once it gets below fifty degrees in

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Florida, it's like, ooh,
it's just wet. It's wet and cool.

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All the iguanas die, they do
they fall out of trees. Yeah,

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really well there basis right, Yeah, and they'll just like you'll be

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driving, you gotta take your umbrella
for iguanas. That'd be sick to just

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like wait under a tree with a
baseball bat and try to like hit them

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as they fall. That's actually how
use in the state of Florida get get

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at baseball bat in practice. Y. Yeah, Chipper Jones grew up in

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Florida, and he actually that's how
he learned to hit. He would stand

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under a tree and swing at iguanas. Nash, don't I remember the iguana's

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always being a thing. I'm sure
they're not. I'm sure everything happened in

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the last forty years when your asshole
residents just like flush their pets into the

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fucking swamp. I'll doo who Now
you have an open python season, you're

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well come, we're just making it
cooler. I want to go python hunting,

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dude. You don't want to go
to the Everglades unless you have to

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know. You could do it in
normal places too. They're everywhere. He's

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just going to some guy's backyard with
the dogs and ship. I swear to

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god, we're like five years away
from a monitor lizard eating a toddler.

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It wouldn't surprise me. This thing's
awesome for sure. Happened before now.

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Oh one funny thing to if you've
thought of it, you can look it

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up. It's happened. Yeah.
If you're if you're ever in South Florida,

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go on Facebook marketplace and look for
a black market iguana meat for sale

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because people people be out here scoop
and iguanas and flaying them fucking gnarly.

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I actually you shouldn't need those.
Do you follow Python Cowboy and Instagram?

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Is he the swamp puppy guy?
Yeah? Boop, he like boops them

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and stuff like that. Yeah,
those dogs trained hunting dogs, you like

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that he kills iguanas and like the
Egyptian geese that are invasive too. Oh

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yeah, I've seen this guy and
uh, anyway, one time he I

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mean, he'll just like sniper.
He has like guncam videos of killing iguanas.

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Is awesome. Anyway, he had
some dead iguana on his boat that

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the dog brought back, and and
some redneck woman was on there, and

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he was just like Daria, and
he like pulled these eggs out of the

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iguana, like it's like a female
iguana, and the woman just like ate

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a raw ascid iguanta egg out of
the iguana. I went a fucking puke.

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Oh man, you know it's crazy. When I talked about how he

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made the carnie eat the goldfish,
Everyone's like, you're a monster. What

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are the macros on that egg?
It's a forty protein right there. I

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do it, no question. Raw. I mean raw milks all the rage

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these days. Raw milk's probably so
much better for you. It's just it's

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the problem with raw milk was that
we started putting dairy cows into pins and

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they'd started infecting each other, and
like the dirty people weren't cleaning up when

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they were milk. I go straight
to the tea. Yeah. No,

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it's just like there's a way to
clean. I've just kept my wife lactating.

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That's perfect. Yeah, Fin's almost
a year old. She's been going

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the whole time. You gotta put
another baby and we use formula. That's

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all for me. I feel like
you should be buffer, I know,

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human milk to find time to work
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Battle of wills between the Battle of
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thing, yeah, battle of patients
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right. Well we're not gonna do
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it's gonna be a multi part Yeah, Patreon, it'd be amazing. We

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just smokes us. We get I
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game. I've never played a single
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I haven't played it in probably twenty
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the official Milton Bradley instructions and find
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my dick off. Yeah that's war
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encourage. Every game is cheating encouraged. It's just wherever I am. I'm

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going to dig in, like the
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I don't believe there's a stinger missile
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we never can hide in the cave. Yeah, okay, you rolled the

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Okay, I roll a three.
All my guys go into a cave.

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I'll do that. I'll get in
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see do it off the dome.
My guys shooting the hip. I you,

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this isn't hard. I was preparing
for this week because I thought it

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was my week again. Well no, no, so we actually kind of

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boned ourselves. I never got a
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because of the holidays and the break
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welcome, Yeah, you got a
free week. I'm saying you're welcome to

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you. Oh extra grind Yeah,
I am a grind boy. Yeah.

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I've accepted that. I don't want
to do anything fun this year. Yeah.

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Dan's pulling up analytics now we're calling
them the analytics. I'm tracking my

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macros, I'm gonna track all my
workouts. I'm tracking my budget for the

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first time. Thirty two almost thirty
three, sick, Enter my Jesus here.

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I'm not getting haircuts. I'm not
getting I'm not gonna turn my bear.

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Actually we're both doing that. Gross, We're just gonna be Jesus.

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Guys, Well you fit? Are
you thirty three? We're both the same

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age, we're the same age,
birthday week, babies coming up in May?

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Okay, so you'll be thirty three
this year. So you have thirty

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three year old jew with a beard. Crucify me, dad, Yeah.

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The whole point is to level up
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gonna we got to reach ascension.
I mean Jesus really did is all his

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ship in the last like two years? What would be like our easter?

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I guess how many months is uh
easter from the birth? It's like four

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months? Right? Well, well, I mean historical thirty three years birthday

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is not December twenty fifth, my
guys, it's like in March allegedly or

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okay, so it's like a fucking
eight grade easter. What date would be

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our Easter? Something like August September, a week after we turned thirty three?

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We die, essentially, why because
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Well, so easter was win,
then I'm confused even more now, like

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whatever, Okay, we don't need
to figure this out on it, No,

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not on air. Don't need to
do this. I think people would

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love it. We don't have to
do it at all, truthfully, whatever

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man. In fact, we're gonna
talk about a man as magical as Jesus

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Christ. I doubt that. I'm
gonna tell you what a priest yelled at

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my classmate in first grade. Jesus
is not magic. It's a miracle.

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It's not magic. Yeah, all
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Jesus Christ. That probably. Yeah. We're talking, of course about my

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guy, Eric Wise. You hear
about this guy? You know about this

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I don't know who Eric Wisse.
I've never heard of this person. Or

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Wise sounds like a guy went to
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that's like the guy that sits bench
on the basketball in high school, Eric

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Wise. Yeah, he's been on
the team every year, never plays.

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I'm gonna keep going until you figure
out who this is. Okay, is

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does he go buy another name?
We'll get to that. So, yes,

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I don't know that David Copperfield.
You're doing David Copperfield Epstein. We're

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not doing an Epstein list David Copperfield. I've actually seeing David Copperfield life.

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You are just around all kinds of
child molesterers. It's it's not that it's

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not like them out they're seeking it. It turns out maybe they are child

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molesters after the fact, like David
Copperfield actually has a lot of this man's

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material, Okay, and just historical
artifacts. Is Eric Wise Houdini? I

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figure? Yeah, yeah, got
it. Eric Wise was born March twenty

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fourth, eighteen seventy four and Hungary. Is it Eric Weiss? Spell it

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w e i sc sc z wise
a Wise, Eric Weise. He's the

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fourth of seven children in a large
Jewish family, pour one out from a

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boy Eric bang. Yeah. With
things looking bleak for the Jews during that

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time, as it did every other
year in Europe, the family would move

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to Appleton, Wisconsin when Eric was
just four. His father served as a

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rabbi for the Zion Reform Jewish Congregation. Was his mother, who he grew

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close to the rest of his life, stay at home, never learned English

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or Yiddish and communicated with her kids
speak German. Okay, okay, yeah,

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man, you guys are just stepping
all over me, let me to

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it. I'm gonna answer your questions. Patty German might as well be.

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Yeah. Once his dad got kicked
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world with his views, Eric's family
moved to Milwaukee cancel culture fucking lives and

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fell into deep poverty, so he
had to pull his share. From an

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early age, he started with odd
jobs on newspapers, shining shoes, brunning

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errands for store owners before becoming a
locksmith apprentice. Oh that makes a lot

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of sense. Hm, that makes
a lot of sense. Now can we

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can we discuss it, like we
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we're talking about now it is Houdini. Yeah, yeah, okay, cool,

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all right, that makes a lot
of sense that he would be a

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locksmith apprentice, learn how to do
loucks, learn how to get out of

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them and open them. Yeah.
Actually his his trick for getting out of

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handcuffs is like genius. I wish
you widen your like what is it?

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Like he just he flex when they're
putting them on, so it's thicker,

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right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've also heard

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that too when like there's zip tig. Actually, the way he goes like

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do this, like put your hands
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Yeah, that you can collapse them
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there. Oh yeah, or like
do you or do that if you can,

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like do anything to create space.
Yeah, yeah yeah. In his

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free time, he would read books
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He started performing on the streets with
his ragtag group of street children, friends

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and family at nine under the name
Eric the Prince of the Air, doing

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trapeze stunts. I like that better
than Houdini, and I will only refer

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to Houdini now on as Eric Prince
of the Air. That's a terrible name.

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That's a great name. That's bad
marketing, dude. He also renamed

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Eric like he is spelled e R
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h R I c h. Yeah
to add some like yeah, yeah,

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he sounds like Yurik the Prince.
It seems a mystical like yeah, basically

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yeah, basically yes. When Eric
was twelve, his family moved to New

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York City, where he cut fabric
for neckties. He's also an accomplished cross

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country runner and swimmer at school.
Okay, so we got the breath holding,

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Yeah, breath holding good lung capacity, fit just fit in general,

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he's he's half the reason I do
this episode is because of his quads.

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Quads. It's he's bricked up,
dude, just like just stacked like a

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ship brick house Brod's all lower body. Yeah, bricked up means horny,

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doesn't it? Or hard? Right? I think I fucked up the euphemism

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there, but he probably, you
know, probably a good dick. Yeah.

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It's actually how you get out of
a straight jacket when they put it

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on. You have to have an
erection creates extra space and then you get

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soft and uh yeah, you just
slip right through you. Yeah. It's

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like, so if anyone that were
trying to commit you against your will,

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make sure you have an erection.
Yeah. At fifteen, everything changed.

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He discovered the memoirs of Robert Houdin
and the rest is history. Oh,

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he named himself after this guy kind
of is Robert Houdin. He is a

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man where he learned the tricks of
the trade. Oh, a previous magician

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you never heard of? Yeah,
oh so he had it an I so,

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oh man, it's like an homage
classic been doing it forever. I'm

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just gonna rip this guy make my
own thing. I probably could have just

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slow played us better. But yeah, he became Harry Houdini and he became

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obsessed with the work of his new
hero. That sparked his enthusiasm for what

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would become the rest of his life. Magic neat nothing nothing. Anglos love

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more than a jew doing tricks.
I tell you that they love it when

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we make things to say on the
streets. Yeah, street magic. So

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urchin robbing basically, that's just that's
pickpocketing. Guys, Oh my god,

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he took my watch. It like
you're like, can you imagine like you're

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a raving anti semi when you see
a little Jewish kid manipulating the laws of

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physics. Yeah, just thinking.
Also, just our our aptitude for entertainment.

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We took something basically legal, like
pickpocketing. We made it entertainment.

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It's like, got your watch off
your wrist, Well, yeah, back,

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it's fine if you give it back, but then you get a coin

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for it. It's like I just
practiced the stealing. I get paid for

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it. Yeah, I have no
risk of jail. Now you're actually like

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almost extorting them. You're like,
hey, I took your wallet and I'm

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gonna give it back to you,
but as out of you know, kindness

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for this, give me some of
what's in it. That is literally a

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classic thief move. By the way, hey fo to be like, hey

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man, I found your wall,
Like, okay, so thank you.

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So about here's five bucks? Yep, classic move. He partnered with his

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friend Jacob Hyman and called themselves the
brothers Udini, not the Brothers Hymen.

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No weird why they performed card tricks, coin swaps, and disappearing acts in

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dime museums and on Coney Island during
the summers next to snake charmers, fire

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eaters, and human oddities freaks freaks. Human oddities is the kindest euphemism for

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freaks show I've ever heard. Right, It's just like the dog faced boy,

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and it was really just someone with
fetal alcohol syndrome or something like that.

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Bearded lady, yeah, just a
woman with hair on her face,

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yeah, just like or just a
fucking transvest ie yeah, or just a

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dude in address. Yeah. You
were saying they were doing disappearing acts,

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huh, just interesting stuff. I
mean they're teenagers here. Yeah. He

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would purchase his first major trick around
this time, called Metamorphosis. Which involved

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two people trading places in a locked
trunk on stage behind screen. Jacob eventually

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left the act, and he replaced
Jacob with his real brother, Theo.

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The two locked down a spot at
the Chicago Worldfare in eighteen ninety three.

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Ooh, that's where the serial killer
was, right, Yeah, Devil in

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the White City, hh Holmes.
Yeah, that was like America's shitty uh

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Midnight in Paris. We should do
a comedic midnight in Chicago and it's eighteen

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ninety three, it's hh Holmes,
Harry Houdini. I'm sure there's a bunch

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of other people rolling around there that. Yeah, probably just like the odd

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Paul Roosevelt shows up. Yeah,
like we could do that. That'd be

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fun. After the fair, Whodini
and his brother returned to Coney Island,

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where they performed at the same hall
as the Singing and Dancing Floral Sisters.

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Was Coney Island just always a fucking
carnival essentially? Yeah? Interesting, Like

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it's just like they founded New York
and they're like, this shall be our

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carnival entertainment. Yeah, I guess
so. Coney Island also, like,

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is it a franchise of hot dogs? Yeah? Well, that's where the

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Coney started. Hot dogs are those
tied to Nathan's. Nathan's started at Coney

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Island, Okay, yeah, yeah, they are tied to each other though,

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right, because like I've been to
one in Pennsylvanias hot dogs, Yeah,

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that's why they have it at Coney
Island. Okay, but I went

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to one. People acted like it
had nothing to do with the fucking island,

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and it was just that was a
coincidence. I was like, are

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you sure, because this seems like
right up the alley of the island,

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this seems like it's exclusively from this
place. They're like, no, this

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is like a Pennsylvania thing. I'm
like, I don't think so whatever,

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man. Yeah, it wasn't long
before a romance blossom between twenty year old

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Houdini an eighteen year old best ranner. Oh see, ill sisters. I

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was really nerve. Oh from the
Florals. I forgot you mentioned a chick,

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because I was like, have you
even mentioned a woman? Is he

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about to bang his brother? Well? He got me off the whole Nathan's

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Coney Island thing. I'm sorry.
Also properly aged woman twenty and eighteen.

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That's just that's solid right there.
This is a time, man, This

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is the time of history where you're
like, he fell in love the beauti

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twelve year old girl named Clara.
Yeah, or he magically got her reaged.

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No, she's now eighteen. Like
yeah, okay, I'll just give

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me the birth ticket for a minute. Okay, you see this. See

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this, that's twelve, says twelve. Okay, I already see it.

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That's twelve. Turn it upside down
twenty one. After a three week courtship,

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Whodini and Best were married on June
twenty second, eighteen ninety four.

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Oh they knew sometimes, I just
know. Man. She was very potite

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too, so he saw use for
this is like related. I read this

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thing the other day about David Blaine
and Leonardo DiCaprio about how like back in

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the Pussy Posse days, Oh I
forgot about the Pussy Posy. Yeah,

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Blaine was a part of that,
wasn't he kind of yeah, and like

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they were worried that like he was
like date raping chicks with hypnotism. Even

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yeah, let's let's throw out the
allegedly that's not it's like barely alleged.

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It was like Leonardo DiCaprio was like
freaking out about it or something. It's

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like, you're a moron. Like
he's obviously not like colonel open you open

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your cornel, my take off,
your take out, your titties, okay,

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great, all right, putting myself
in you know, car, do

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you feel great? I think he's
just describing what David Copperfield did on Epstein's

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Island. No, Copperfield's got flair
though, like he's he he's a little

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sexual on the stage though. Yeah. Yeah, he was a sex symbol

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for a minute. He was like
a hot guy. Yeah. Blaine's last

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trick wasn't even magic really. He
just went up on an hot air balloon.

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Dude, upright, the balloons he
was holding the whole time. He's

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past magic. Now he's like strengths. He's like feeding straight. He did

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that too. He's like, I'm
just gonna be underwater for eleven minutes or

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some ship. Most of Houdini's stuff, his feats of strength. Yeah,

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yeah, like Blaine's one of was
he like frozen solid or something. He

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was like stuck or some shit.
It's like it's not nothing magic about it.

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It's just like I'm gonna become Walt
Disney pretty much. He does.

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Like the balloon one cracked me up. I watched the entire thing of that

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because I was like, this is
it. She's got like seven hundred helium

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balloons carrying him into the sky.
All right. I do like when he

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just fucks with people, like when
he just does the card tricks or whatever.

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Yeah, like when Harrison Ford,
someone gets a card in Harrison Ford's

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orange. Yeah, that's great.
I don't need to see him be like

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the best one won't die. Let's
call that magic. The best one is

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when he goes to Haiti and all
the Haitians run away from him. That's

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not a good place to do magic. No, it's the worst. They

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believe in it. Yeah, you
believe in it. Yeaheah, You're just

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some white devil that showed up doing
it best. Soon replaced Theo as Houdini's

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partner, since she was able to
hide in side various boxes and trunks and

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venishin acts much easier since she was
tiny, plus you know better, like

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people don't want to look at two
dudes. Yeah, so that's how that's

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how he knew. Within three days. Huh, He's like, oh my

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god, you are so small.
You gotta have your assistant p a female.

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Yeah, I mean, that's what
the Prestige taught us. He's maade

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to the game. You need to
Scarlet Johansson in your corner. Yes.

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They went by the names of Monsieur
and Mademoiselle Houdini, Mysterious Harry and La

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Petite Bessie, or the Great Houdinis. In eighteen ninety six, the Houdinis

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went to work in the Welsh Brothers
traveling circus Nice Best Saying So tour while

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Houdini did magic tricks, and together
they performed the Metamorphosis Act. In eighteen

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ninety six, when the circus season
ended, the Houdini's joined a traveling Vadeville

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Chill, Wait, did she sing
songs while he was doing the magic?

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Like he's like setting up the trick
and dancing around? She did some of

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the the magic too, Yeah,
I mean she was a pro. But

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is she like uh the final countdown
for job? Oh? Ye? You

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know what I mean, Like she's
just on stage like what's the Yeah,

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you gotta have music for your fucking
tricks, dude, what's the one?

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The one? Right? Putfore the
prestige where it's like it's the one where

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you're getting them to look somewhere else
away the distraction. She's the distraction.

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Yeah, like she's the oh look
at this lady sing and you know maybe

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that buy that He sends a signal
to like popper tit out of people looking

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at her wardrobe malfunction. In each
new town, Houdini would visit the local

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police station announced that he could escape
from any handcuffs they put him in.

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Bolt just walks in. He's like, lift it up, pussy, I

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think you can arrest me. Smells
like bacon in here. What do they

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even even have handcuffs? That point
is it's still like shackles, like old

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like chains, like yeah like that
like Jack sparrows in and fucking it's actually

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a ball touched your ankle. Yeah. Crowds would gather to watch as Houdini

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easily escaped. These pre show exploits
were often covered by local newspapers, creating

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publicity for their show. It'd be
funny if one of the cops just beat

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the Christ out of them. I
think he's unconscious, and then the cuff

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of it and then they just wildless. I'm like, okay, we do

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to our other prisoners, say I'd
never put a gun cuffs before I beat

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him on, cos yeah, the
whole point to keep audiences further amused.

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Hoodini decided to escape from a straight
jacket, using his agility and flexibility to

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wiggle free from it in direction big
old boner. Yeah, yeah, absolutely

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hard on. When this show ended, the Houdini scrambled to find work,

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even contemplating work other than magic.
No, that's you gotta be addicted to

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the game. You gotta be willing
to be fucking broke. They were offered

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a position with Doctor Hills California Concert
Company, an old time traveling medicine show

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sealing tonic that could cure just about
anything. Oh god, So, just

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so we're clear, what this sounds
like to me, is content created to

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sell merch? Yep, there's never
there are no new ideas. No,

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everything is fucking the same ship over
and over. So this guy, it's

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like, who, what was the
company that bought a content company just to

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just to like sell their ship?
Every company? Yeah, what you one?

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Recently? It was like very transparent
like that. That's like it was

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like a non content company bought a
content company just to sell ship. Oh

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oh well, Penn and Barstool for
example, necessarily, but that was literally

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they just wanted a Why pay for
advertising when you can just have a platform.

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You just have a channel, right, yeah, exactly, like a

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entire multi channel operation to do it
for you. Absolutely nothing new, No,

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I mean, yeah, you put
on a show, sell some ship.

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Yeah. Yeah. Uh what do
you think a concert is? Yeah,

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that's what music's for. They don't
make money off the shows. It's

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all about selling that sweet tease.
Yeah. In the Medicine Show, Whodini

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once again performed his escape acts.
However, when the tendance members began to

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dwindle, doctor Hill asked, who
DENI? If he could transform himself into

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a spirit medium? What do you
mean? Like he They're like, hey,

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people aren't showing up. Could you
say you're talking to their relative?

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Chances? We need a sance bit
yes, basically so. Houdini was already

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familiar with many of the spirit medium's
tricks, so he began seances while best

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performed as a clairvoyant, claiming to
have psychic gifts. Sure, why not?

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Is it racist that whenever I go
to New Orleans and I get my

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cards read, I'd never want a
white person. Uh No, and if

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they are white it's gotta be a
woe like I did. Last thing I

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need is a white man reading my
Tarot card. Heamn, Scott, I've

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been doing tarot for nine years.
Got here? Yeah, okay, tartal

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cards and like sushi restaurants. Yeah, like I am. I am literally

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looking for like a stereotypical like like
disgustingly racistly stereotypical voodoo woman. You don't

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want to get to voodooy, No, you just get cursed, yeah yeah,

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yeah, because then she knows your
Yeah yeah, yeah. You want

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to like spit in vodka out you
know what I mean around the perimeter and

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maybe some face hats. Yeah yeah, yeah, that's just what I want.

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But as far as the sushi chef
comment goes, it's not an original

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thought. I think the League covered
it. Timothy Oliphant in an episode was

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a sushi chef. It was just
like nope, and they're like, no,

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thank you. I see. I
realized now that like every time you

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go into a Benny Hanna, you
know, you get like the guy that's

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not Japanese. It's like now it's
like mostly not Japanese guys. There's not

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enough Japanese people in the country to
do it's the most Asian guys. Yeah,

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it's Asian. That's fine, But
he's like, that's not the right.

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Oh, I'm talking about like in
Florida, where it's like mostly like

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Puerto Rican guys. Yeah, but
it is like the type of thing where

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it's like, imagine you're in Japan
or just imagine you're in Japan and you're

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like, man, really it's the
Mexican food and like the guy you see

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the guy cooking and you're like,
oh, he's from Oregon, close enough,

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same continent. We're good. Yeah, we're good. No, but

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also like it doesn't matter. No, it doesn't matter except what the tarot

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cards are. Not terrort carts for
sure. No, there's a difference between

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food and magic. Yeah. Food
is food. Like if you can make

401
00:27:36,559 --> 00:27:37,880
it tasty, you make it tastey. Yeah, there's there's literally, there's

402
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,799
a there's directions, and no one
from des Moines is channeling anything from the

403
00:27:41,839 --> 00:27:47,599
other from the other side of the
No, that's not happening. The Houdini's

404
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:52,200
were very successful pretending to be spiritualists
because they always did the research. As

405
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:56,119
soon as they pulled into a new
town, the Houdinis would read recent obituaries

406
00:27:56,160 --> 00:28:02,240
and visit graveyards to see the names
of the newly That's fucking great. That's

407
00:28:02,279 --> 00:28:07,599
smart. Gotta do your work man. No, he's he's committed to the

408
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:11,240
bit, and he's like, that's
a high level of showmanship, honestly,

409
00:28:11,279 --> 00:28:15,839
Like even those people are getting scammed, they're getting scammed convincingly. That's great,

410
00:28:17,319 --> 00:28:19,160
that's good writing. Yeah, you
do your research. Yeah. They

411
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:23,960
would also subtly listen to town gossip. That's just fun. All this allowed

412
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:29,759
them to piece together enough information to
convince crowds that the Houdinis were real spiritualist

413
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:33,680
with amazing powers to contact the dead. They have ears and eyes. Can

414
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,920
you imagine if they like outed an
affair in town. I bet they did.

415
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:38,200
I bet they had fun with it. Like if there's a town,

416
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,880
they're like, man, fuck this
town in particular, you just like get

417
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:45,720
the merits hard and feathered. By
the end of the day, however,

418
00:28:45,039 --> 00:28:49,480
feelings of guilt about lying to grief
stricken people eventually became overwhelming, and the

419
00:28:49,519 --> 00:28:55,200
Houdinis ultimately quit the show. But
there they're got too good at it.

420
00:28:55,279 --> 00:28:57,119
Yeah, they're not in it for
that right, it's after that is a

421
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:03,000
nightmare. Like after the show,
someone runs up, like, tell me

422
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:07,079
more what my little Billy said for
the I messed him so much. Oh

423
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:11,039
you can handle that easy. It's
like, oh, he said it's really

424
00:29:11,079 --> 00:29:14,759
hot. Yeah. But then she
follows you. Think about all right,

425
00:29:14,839 --> 00:29:18,079
yeah, think about fans we've had
or have where it's like they just get

426
00:29:18,119 --> 00:29:19,319
really into it, you know what
I mean, and really and they like

427
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,839
you'll damn me a lot or whatever, like, but think about that,

428
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,359
and it's like, but you're telling
the chick about her dead toddler who she's

429
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,519
like devastated, died of typhoid or
something. She starts following you. She's

430
00:29:30,519 --> 00:29:33,799
like, I just don't wondering if
Billy said anything to you to day.

431
00:29:34,039 --> 00:29:37,359
At some point you're just like,
oh my god, Dade, Oh he's

432
00:29:37,519 --> 00:29:40,559
a nightmare. He's in limbo now. Yeah, you actually ruined it.

433
00:29:41,799 --> 00:29:45,000
I got him set there because you
are pissing me off. And if you

434
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,039
never talk to me again, I'll
go back Bill. He says, Billy's

435
00:29:48,039 --> 00:29:48,960
moved on too far. I just
like, Billy's moved on too far as

436
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:52,960
clearly in heaven yeah or that.
Yeah, for sure, he will go

437
00:29:52,039 --> 00:29:55,640
home. But again, this was
just a paycheck. This is not something

438
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:59,240
they were striving to do. That
wasn't even their idea. The sancing is

439
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:06,799
their podcast. Yeah yeah, with
no other prospects. It's not a joke

440
00:30:06,839 --> 00:30:10,440
with just about us. It's like
every writer and comedian now just their primary

441
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:14,160
form of income is podcast. That's
not what they want to do. Yeah

442
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:18,240
yeah, but embrace it, boys, Yes, we're here for the long

443
00:30:18,279 --> 00:30:23,200
haul boom. With no other prospects
that Houdinis went back to perform at the

444
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:27,960
Welsh Brothers Traveling Circus. While performing
in Chicago in eighteen ninety nine, Houdini

445
00:30:29,039 --> 00:30:33,240
once again performed his police station stunt
of escaping handcuffs. The following day of

446
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:40,599
the Chicago Journal ran the headline Amazes
the Detectives with a large drawing of Houdini.

447
00:30:41,559 --> 00:30:45,200
The publicity stunts surrounding Houdini and his
handcuffed act caught the eye of Martin

448
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:52,720
Beck, the head of the Orphum
Theater circuit, who signed him for a

449
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:57,119
one year contract. Whodini was to
perform the Handcuff Escape Act and Metamorphosis at

450
00:30:57,119 --> 00:31:03,720
the classy Orphrom theaters in Omaha,
Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto, San Francisco,

451
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:10,119
and Houdini was finally rising from obscurity
and into the spotlight. I have

452
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,519
a big break. That's a pretty
big deal. That's a world tour really

453
00:31:12,599 --> 00:31:17,680
for that time. I mean he
does go into an international tour after that.

454
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,119
Yeah. Man, it's interesting to
me too that, likeial metamorphosis was

455
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:25,720
an act he bought from someone else. That's every magician, Yeah, sold

456
00:31:25,759 --> 00:31:27,680
acts left and right. Yeah,
it wasn't uncommon, like, but the

457
00:31:27,759 --> 00:31:32,720
shows themselves were like trade shows too, because like you go to see another

458
00:31:32,799 --> 00:31:34,640
magician's act and then buy that from
you. Yeah, like, I think

459
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:38,039
I could pizzazz it up a little
bit more. It's just like the Aztec

460
00:31:38,119 --> 00:31:45,480
too, interested development, which you
gotta job's thing he like bought like a

461
00:31:45,519 --> 00:31:48,960
ten thousand. It's in the first
it's in the very first episode. He

462
00:31:49,039 --> 00:31:52,160
hides his dad in there, and
that's why he gets kicked out of the

463
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:56,160
Magician's Alliance because there's the police dogs
sniff out his dad and they show how

464
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,880
the trick works. Yeah. During
all this too, Wodiny is kind of

465
00:32:00,039 --> 00:32:04,880
he rises to the president of that
The Magicians the Line it's not called The

466
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,000
Magicians the Lines, but it's like
essentially that concept. Yeah. Yeah,

467
00:32:07,119 --> 00:32:10,200
Oh, they'll kick you out for
revealing secrets. No, but he is.

468
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:15,039
He just gets power. He's the
president of the organization. Yeah,

469
00:32:15,039 --> 00:32:20,160
he's like the head of the Teamsters, but for magic people. In the

470
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,079
spring of nineteen hundred and twenty six
year old Whodini, exuding confidence as the

471
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:28,720
King of Handcuffs sick, left for
Europe in the hopes of finding success.

472
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:34,440
His first stop was London, where
Houdini performed, and while there Houdini was

473
00:32:34,519 --> 00:32:38,640
challenged to escape from Scotland Yards handcuffs. As always, Houdini escaped the theater

474
00:32:39,359 --> 00:32:45,799
fill in each show every night for
months. It's amazing how bored people could

475
00:32:45,839 --> 00:32:49,799
be. Back then nothing to do, I know, seriously though, it's

476
00:32:49,799 --> 00:32:51,720
like, what do you want to
do for the next hour. Let's just

477
00:32:51,759 --> 00:32:54,920
watch this guy get out of progressively
weirder chains. That's pretty cool that now

478
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,559
doing on my phone. Yeah it's
true. And then don't believe it's real.

479
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:04,480
Yeah, the fucking funny you say
that. In September nineteen hundred,

480
00:33:04,519 --> 00:33:07,880
Houdini was summoned by the German police
prior to his first performance in the country,

481
00:33:08,039 --> 00:33:14,200
who suspected his act was fake.
Don't go Houdini in Berlin, he

482
00:33:14,279 --> 00:33:16,960
was stripped naked and forced to perform
an escape routine in front of three hundred

483
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:21,200
policemen. That is the most German
thing I've ever heard in my life.

484
00:33:21,279 --> 00:33:23,880
We should have saw her arrested to
take off your clothes, seriously, put

485
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:30,359
him in chains, escape yourself,
show us all. It was just three

486
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:36,319
hundred German cops just like watching silently, like the fathers of future SS officers,

487
00:33:36,359 --> 00:33:40,079
just being like, show us magic
mom, show us jew gets within.

488
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:46,680
Yeah, Houdini was tightly restrained with
thumbscrews, fingerlocks, and five different

489
00:33:46,799 --> 00:33:51,759
hand and elbow irons. Who was
able to escape in six minutes and later

490
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,440
use the stunt and advertisement three hundred. I'm just can't get over three hundred

491
00:33:55,480 --> 00:34:00,559
policemen staring at his fucking hog come
on naked guy while he gets James.

492
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:05,599
Would that be the worst Holocaust movie
ever made? A magician leads an escape

493
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,880
for a fucking docout, It would
be pretty bad? Yeah, it's I

494
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:14,639
mean, that's a producer's level bad
idea, Like so bad that? Yeah?

495
00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:17,199
But take Springtime? What was it? Springtime with hilar Springtime with Hillary?

496
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:21,440
Yeah? Well, what is the
fucking what was the actual Holocaust movie

497
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,840
that was like a wacky comedy with
Roberto Benini. Life is beautiful, oh

498
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:31,000
Rabbit, but no, well yeah
no, but like Jojo Rabbit that it

499
00:34:31,079 --> 00:34:34,320
knows what it is like. Yeah, I guess they both did. But

500
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,679
life is beautiful as like Slapstick.
Yeah, we should watch that on the

501
00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:42,119
Patreon someday because it's it's a ridiculous
movie. Yeah, we should, it

502
00:34:42,119 --> 00:34:45,760
would be fun. In nineteen oh
one, a newspaper in Cologne accused him

503
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:51,920
of attempting to bribe a police officer
in order to rig an escape attempt,

504
00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:57,519
and paying a civilian police employee to
aid him with another performance. Houdini sued

505
00:34:57,519 --> 00:35:00,519
the newspaper and the police officer for
slam. It's part of the trial,

506
00:35:00,559 --> 00:35:05,840
Houdini was asked to open without the
aid of tools one of the police officers

507
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,440
handcrafted locks, which the officer had
said that Houdini had tried to bribe him

508
00:35:10,559 --> 00:35:15,840
for. Whodini was able to do
so won the case. Boom. That's

509
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,519
I love that kind of shit where
it's like courtrooms just like let's just like

510
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,239
do the practical thing here. Oh, have you ever seen there's like a

511
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:29,039
famous picture from the nineties maybe of
the stripper showing the judge that you can't

512
00:35:29,039 --> 00:35:32,960
see her vagina when she's bent over
wearing the underwear that she or like bottom

513
00:35:34,079 --> 00:35:37,679
that she wears in her performance,
because it was like a no bottoms state.

514
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:42,960
Oh gotcha, gotcha. It's just
her be like straight up bent over

515
00:35:43,079 --> 00:35:46,079
in front of the judge being like, look, you can't see my vagina.

516
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:51,079
Yeah, and the judge is like, cash, no, I think

517
00:35:51,119 --> 00:35:52,360
I don't understand that in the strip
clubs where they're like you have to wear

518
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:59,079
pasties like nudity kind of yeah,
because just can't see nipple. Jesus or

519
00:35:59,159 --> 00:36:02,079
puritanical country that's weird whatever. He
asked me, how alcohol are or a

520
00:36:02,119 --> 00:36:05,800
lot like that, and like because
Jesus, Yeah, that's Jesus. It's

521
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,079
that. The Houdini's went on to
perform in Dresden, Germany, at the

522
00:36:09,119 --> 00:36:14,719
Central Theater, where ticket sales broke
records for five years. Houdini and Best

523
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,800
performed throughout Europe and even in Russia, with tickets often selling out ahead of

524
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:24,119
time for their performances. Whodini had
become an international star. Sweet yeah.

525
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,519
He might have been one of the
first pre sale people, one of the

526
00:36:28,559 --> 00:36:31,039
first what pre sales peoples. Yeah, I mean he's got to be.

527
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:38,639
I don't know when performers started becoming
internationally famous, probably like composers, I

528
00:36:38,639 --> 00:36:44,079
would say opera singers too. Probably
certain opera singers would probably be worldwide renowned.

529
00:36:44,199 --> 00:36:47,519
He's probably literally maybe the first internationally
famous performer of the twentieth century.

530
00:36:47,599 --> 00:36:52,199
Oh, I would have to think
so, right, Well, maybe from

531
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,920
America gets in there, and yeah, yeah, he might be the first

532
00:36:55,039 --> 00:37:00,639
famous American, like internationally famous American
person that's not a politician. Yeah,

533
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,599
well no, because you had Buffalo
Bill. Oh yeah, out Lost that

534
00:37:04,679 --> 00:37:07,519
was a traveling show, traveling circuit. Yeah, that Wild West show.

535
00:37:07,559 --> 00:37:10,159
I think that went to Europe and
stuff too. I couldn't tell you probably

536
00:37:10,159 --> 00:37:16,039
did. Didn't do the research on
every other famous name. In nineteen oh

537
00:37:16,079 --> 00:37:20,119
five, the Houdini's decided to head
back to the United States and try to

538
00:37:20,159 --> 00:37:24,000
win fame and fortune there as well. Udini's specialty had become escapes. In

539
00:37:24,079 --> 00:37:29,280
nineteen oh six, Oudini escaped from
jail cells in Brooklyn, Detroit, Cleveland,

540
00:37:29,519 --> 00:37:34,519
Rochester, and Buffalo in Washington,
d C. Houdini performed an escape

541
00:37:34,519 --> 00:37:39,599
act involving the former jail of Charles
Caddell the assassins of President James A.

542
00:37:39,639 --> 00:37:44,719
Garfield, A little fun little tie
in there. He get out, Well,

543
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:45,880
of course he got out, but
wait, the jail cell was like

544
00:37:46,199 --> 00:37:50,320
where he was held after the shooting
or whatever. Yeah, stripped and wearing

545
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:54,360
handcuffs supplied by the Secret Service.
Houdini's freed himself from the lock cell and

546
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:59,920
then unlocked the adjoining cell where his
clothes were waiting, all within eighteen minutes.

547
00:38:00,039 --> 00:38:04,880
See, that would be sweet if
David Blaine was like just like recreated

548
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:12,039
the Jack Ruby shooting, dodged the
bullet. He just gets shot, staying

549
00:38:12,159 --> 00:38:15,119
like but I'm gonna live. It's
like, that's not magic. You just

550
00:38:15,159 --> 00:38:20,719
didn't die. What is it?
Hold on, pull out the bullet and

551
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,159
there's just like an ace of spades
inside the bullet. This was John F.

552
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:30,159
Kennedy's card. Around nineteen oh seven. People are starting to kind of

553
00:38:30,199 --> 00:38:37,599
get a little tired of the unlocking
handcuffs, the escaped acts. It makes

554
00:38:37,599 --> 00:38:38,639
sense. It's like, oh,
I wonder if he's gonna get out.

555
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:43,679
It's like entourage, right, It's
like, oh no, keep referencing.

556
00:38:44,519 --> 00:38:45,440
I wonder if they're gonna make But
we're ripping on it. It's like,

557
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:49,079
oh, I wonder if they're gonna
make the movie or if Vinnie's done for

558
00:38:49,159 --> 00:38:51,960
good in the town. Yeah,
oh no, oh, what's good?

559
00:38:52,079 --> 00:38:55,519
Oh they made the movie, says
we can do the movie. Every it's

560
00:38:55,559 --> 00:38:59,639
every right. I wonder if he's
gonna get out of the head because oh

561
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:02,519
so he's still gonna do escape acts. But he ups the ante here.

562
00:39:02,599 --> 00:39:08,519
That's what you gotta escalate. Houdini
unveiled a dangerous stunt in Rochester, New

563
00:39:08,599 --> 00:39:14,760
York, where his hands handcuffed by
his back before he jumped from a bridge

564
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,639
into the river. Then in nineteen
oh eight, who did He introduced a

565
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:23,440
dramatic milk can escape where he was
locked inside a sealed milk can filled with

566
00:39:23,559 --> 00:39:29,559
water. Oh thank god it wasn't
filled with milk milk, Yeah, it

567
00:39:29,679 --> 00:39:31,239
kinda would be. It'd be wasteful, though. No one wastes that much

568
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:35,519
milk on a magic trip. What
is a milk can? It's gotta be

569
00:39:35,559 --> 00:39:37,119
just like a giant vat. Yeah, like a vat. Yeah, okay,

570
00:39:37,159 --> 00:39:40,159
because I'm just like obviously picturing like, no, he he fit into

571
00:39:40,159 --> 00:39:45,320
a cart and he shrank. Well, yeah, it's honestly not very big

572
00:39:45,119 --> 00:39:47,920
kid that just like got stuck in
the jar the other day he got stuck

573
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:52,400
in a vass. This is him. It's not that big, Okay,

574
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,119
it is a boss. Yeah,
so he did the kid that just got

575
00:39:55,159 --> 00:40:01,800
stuck in a Yeah. Yeah,
I mean this thing, this thing is

576
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:06,360
up to the homie in the fucking
video that you're talking about was just stuck.

577
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:07,880
It was just stuck. Man.
This this thing that Houdini's in,

578
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:12,840
it comes up to the wastes of
the three people with him. So it's

579
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,440
like what probably two and a half
feet tall. Yeah, yeah, it's

580
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:21,599
fucking tiny. It's not big.
No. The performances were huge hits.

581
00:40:22,119 --> 00:40:27,159
The drama and flirting with death made
Houdini even more popular. You gotta keep

582
00:40:27,599 --> 00:40:31,159
again, it's like any other content, right, you gotta keep doubling down

583
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:36,239
and leaning into and getting more extreme. So one of the things in improv,

584
00:40:36,519 --> 00:40:38,840
just like one thing I actually did
learn that I think was useful in

585
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:43,840
those classes is like, if you
start a scene insane, that scene's gonna

586
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:45,679
suck, right because you can't go
and keep going and you have to start

587
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:47,880
or like when you start same thing
with like the slow build. If you

588
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:52,159
want to sing the star spangled banner. Start low, yeah, because those

589
00:40:52,199 --> 00:40:53,719
highs are gonna kick your ass when
you get there, because it's a constantly

590
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:59,119
escalating song. Yeah, so like, yeah, you can't start high up.

591
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:00,719
It's good. You do have to
escalate. You can't run into the

592
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:06,440
improv scene like like okay, I've
got a good on fire. It's done.

593
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:07,960
You're fucked, dude. Yeah,
what's funnier than that? Nothing,

594
00:41:08,079 --> 00:41:13,119
nothing's funnier than a penis. It
is kind of funny. You're everybody else

595
00:41:13,119 --> 00:41:16,559
in your troop try to like follow
that. Oh yes, like zink a

596
00:41:16,639 --> 00:41:20,199
scene. No, that's actually a
thing that is funny. It's called fucking

597
00:41:20,199 --> 00:41:22,760
your buddy where it's like you've just
you escalate it and like leave it with

598
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:28,039
him. It's yeah, it's like, all right, man, Tato's hot

599
00:41:28,039 --> 00:41:31,239
a shit fuck you. In nineteen
oh nine, who DEENI became fascinated with

600
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:37,800
aviation. Hell yeah. He purchased
a plane for five thousand dollars in nineteen

601
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:45,199
oh nine from a Chilean aviator and
uh hired a full time mechanic. After

602
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:50,679
crashing once, he made his first
successful flight on November sixth or twenty six

603
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:55,400
in Hamburg, Germany. The following
year, Hudini toured Australia and brought along

604
00:41:55,440 --> 00:42:00,199
his plane with the intention to become
the first person to fly in Australia.

605
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:05,760
Wait, no one had fallen in
Australia. That's the first second airplane hadn't

606
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:09,039
gotten to Australia yet. This is
nineteen oh nine, and when was flight

607
00:42:09,119 --> 00:42:13,639
nineteen oh one or two or something. So on Friday March eighteenth, nineteen

608
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:17,800
ten, following multiple weather delays,
he did become the first person to ever

609
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:22,400
fly in Australia. That's just funny. Yeah, it's hilarious to think that

610
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:28,760
that's a stat you could get a
claim, right, I mean, it

611
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,440
just surprises me because flight became so
prolific so quickly. Yeah. The right

612
00:42:32,519 --> 00:42:37,159
brothers flew in nineteen oh three.
Yeah, so yeah, it's xp seven

613
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,639
years. Man, it's Australia.
It's a fucking backwoods. There is in

614
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:45,360
nobody's island. I mean, the
fact we went from nineteen oh three to

615
00:42:45,559 --> 00:42:49,559
nineteen sixty nine, sixty what six
years we got to the fucking moon.

616
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,280
Yeah, that's insane. Yeah,
well we left the planet in the fifties.

617
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,480
Yeah. He flew for three and
a half minutes, reaching an altitude

618
00:42:55,519 --> 00:43:02,480
of one hundred feet good for him? What Australian flying? What how high

619
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,559
do you have to get to be
considered flying? That seems like gliding.

620
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:07,880
The Wright brothers did not get higher
than one hundred feet, They probably got

621
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:14,000
like twenty five. Yeah. Yeah. After completing his Australia tour, Hohodini

622
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,280
put his plane into storage in England. He announced he would use it to

623
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:22,880
fly from city to city during his
next music hall tour, and even promised

624
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:27,199
to leap from it handcuffed, but
he never flew it again. Booo.

625
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:30,880
Yeah, he saw that, he
saw what the limit was at the time.

626
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:36,039
Yeah, it would be like that's
the type of thing where you want,

627
00:43:36,079 --> 00:43:38,599
like I get I get his like
concerned though, because it is the

628
00:43:38,599 --> 00:43:44,280
type of thing where you want like
uh, eventually you're like lock yourself.

629
00:43:44,519 --> 00:43:49,079
You're the cage with fucking eight just
fucking pissed off gorillas, and if you

630
00:43:49,079 --> 00:43:52,280
don't got to get out of that
cage as fast as fucking possible, like

631
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:55,559
if you just need him to get
closer and closer to death. Yeah,

632
00:43:55,599 --> 00:43:59,159
Like it's like all right, cut
your artery open and you got to sew

633
00:43:59,159 --> 00:44:01,719
it up before you we'll see the
cage. The truth, you'd have to

634
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:06,280
actually make a big cage with him
in the middle, and then eight cages

635
00:44:06,679 --> 00:44:09,039
to hold the gorillas separately that you
release at the same time. Right,

636
00:44:09,079 --> 00:44:14,000
that's a pretty complicated engineering job you
think about it. Oh, true,

637
00:44:14,119 --> 00:44:15,639
Or he's got to get out like
that, he's got four minutes before the

638
00:44:15,679 --> 00:44:19,440
gorillas are released. Yeah, yeah, that's a good one. Yeah,

639
00:44:19,519 --> 00:44:22,559
and the like ticking clock. Yeah, like every thirty seconds after that,

640
00:44:22,639 --> 00:44:27,440
they released one Nathan for You thing, right, Like he has to escape

641
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:30,159
the handcuffs before the robot pulls his
pants down in front of CHILDRENK. Yeah,

642
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:36,360
that's very gemmosexual creditor. Yeah.
Every time I think about that,

643
00:44:36,679 --> 00:44:39,400
like I just like sit back for
a second, and I'm like, that

644
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:46,000
might be the funniest thing anyone's ever
done, Like literally, like not subjectively

645
00:44:46,119 --> 00:44:52,760
like Objack might be. Might be
the funniest thing anyone's ever come up with.

646
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:57,079
Oh god, I just finished his
series actually really the Curse. I

647
00:44:57,079 --> 00:44:59,760
sat to watch that, but yeah, Nathan for You all time. Great,

648
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:02,480
It's just like I don't even it's
like beyond I get. The first

649
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:05,599
time I saw it, I was
like crying laughing, But every time since

650
00:45:05,599 --> 00:45:08,280
then, I've just been like,
is this the most beautiful thing I've ever

651
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:13,880
seen. It's it's the perfect line
of exploitation. It's like right up to

652
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,440
like where it's problematic, but it's
not like it's like it's very gray,

653
00:45:16,679 --> 00:45:20,960
I think for a lot of people. But just I mean, the rehearsal

654
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,239
was perfect too. I thought I've
only seen the actual clip. I haven't

655
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:27,960
seen like the whole episode or anything
like that. No, the rehearsal the

656
00:45:28,119 --> 00:45:31,119
series that he did though, Oh
the Audi series really mistone. What is

657
00:45:31,119 --> 00:45:35,000
a sound? No, that's a
curse. Curse. Yeah, anyway,

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723
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724
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725
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impressed and proclaimed who Dini's Feet as
one of the most remarkable tricks ever performed.

726
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:39,559
Like, what's the Scientific American is
it nobody's nobody's like claiming that he's

727
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a wizard, and they're like,
well, we can't just prove it where

728
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the spark shooting out of his fingers
came from. It's just a guy picking

729
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:52,639
locks and holding his breath, like, there's nothing unscientific about it. Yeah,

730
00:49:52,679 --> 00:49:54,719
it's really not. He's got it's
slight a fan. The only thing

731
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:58,559
that would have been, like if
Scientific America was like that seance was the

732
00:49:58,559 --> 00:50:01,679
closest thing we've ever seen. Yeah, we did peer into another world.

733
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:06,440
Lavelle was lifted that day. Uh
No, but they're talking about, like

734
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:10,599
you said, okay, engineering and
contortia. Yeah, it's it's there's nothing

735
00:50:10,679 --> 00:50:15,559
unscientific about what he's doing. People
like, no, no, he's got,

736
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:20,519
he's got. In September of nineteen
twelve, Houdini debuted his famous he's

737
00:50:20,519 --> 00:50:25,199
probably his most famous trick, the
Chinese water torture cell, and he escaped

738
00:50:25,559 --> 00:50:30,719
at the Circus Bush in Berlin.
Is that the big glass box filled the

739
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:35,920
water For this trick, Budini was
handcuffed and shackled and then lowered headfirst into

740
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:40,440
a tall glass box boom that had
been filled with water. So don't they

741
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:44,679
show that in the prestige that it's
the pristige trick. Pretty yeah, where

742
00:50:45,599 --> 00:50:50,119
Hugh Jackman falls into it or whatever, wasn't the whole thing. He kept

743
00:50:50,159 --> 00:50:54,000
cloning himself. Yeah, that's the
whole twist, sorry guys, spoilers.

744
00:50:55,360 --> 00:51:00,920
Assistance would then POI to curtain in
front of the glass. Moment later who

745
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:05,639
Deni would emerge, wet but alive. This became again his famous his most

746
00:51:05,679 --> 00:51:09,559
famous trick. When the US joined
World War One, Houdini tried to enlist

747
00:51:09,559 --> 00:51:13,880
in the army. So not a
coward, No, not a coward.

748
00:51:14,199 --> 00:51:16,760
However, he was forty three.
Oh, so he was not accepted.

749
00:51:17,119 --> 00:51:20,480
I mean, you got to just
use him as he's too famous to be

750
00:51:20,519 --> 00:51:23,760
like a spy. But maybe I
don't know. Well, he ended up

751
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:28,199
going over and he spent years performing
for the troops. Not too famous to

752
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:32,639
Jermis No for US. We've had
situations in US spy games so where like

753
00:51:34,679 --> 00:51:39,599
we've used like famous baseball players and
like people in they'd go over to try

754
00:51:39,639 --> 00:51:45,079
and get like Recon and like Dennis
Robbin. But then like people, other

755
00:51:45,119 --> 00:51:49,159
American troops would see them and be
like, yo, that's so and so

756
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:52,519
slugan man and like they'd be like, what shut the fuck up? Like,

757
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,000
hey, it went out in a
bark for me. Yeah. No,

758
00:51:55,039 --> 00:52:00,599
he'd be like they'd like blow their
own spies cover and ship because they

759
00:52:00,639 --> 00:52:02,519
had to like dial that in on
who they could actually use. I think

760
00:52:02,599 --> 00:52:06,480
it was a World War two spy
that that happened too. That's really funny.

761
00:52:06,559 --> 00:52:08,360
Yeah. When the war was drawn
to a close, Whodini gets his

762
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:15,280
first he check. Really he hoped
that he could get into the movies motion

763
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:17,960
pictures. Oh yeah, it'd be
a new way for him to reach mass

764
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:25,000
audiences. So he was signed by
famous players Lasky Paramount Pictures. Whodini starred

765
00:52:25,039 --> 00:52:30,920
in his first motion picture in nineteen
nineteen, a fifteen episode serial titled The

766
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:37,639
Master Mystery. He also starred in
The Grim Game in nineteen nineteen Terror Island

767
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:42,559
in nineteen twenty, and the two
films were total flops. I would say,

768
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:45,800
were the scripted? What was it
like? Do you know? Or

769
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:49,480
was it just like him doing his
tricks on film? No, it was

770
00:52:49,519 --> 00:52:53,400
more actors acting. Okay, these
weren't talkies yet though. Yeah, no,

771
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:55,840
he's a shellman. But what I
wonder if it was the type of

772
00:52:55,840 --> 00:53:00,280
thing where like you know, Practical
Jokers had that movie a film and there

773
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:05,199
was like a loose plot where it's
like, okay, Eva Longoria walks up

774
00:53:05,199 --> 00:53:07,599
to us and she's like, oh
my gosh, I love you guys.

775
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:12,039
I've got two tickets to this thing
in la if you guys want to come,

776
00:53:12,119 --> 00:53:13,960
but it's only two and like,
okay, here, get to do

777
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:15,840
We could go across the country.
We have to get the best precks,

778
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:19,679
two best guys, you do the
best pricked to go to that. I

779
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:21,559
need you to stop this one.
Yeah, I want to move on.

780
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:25,320
Also, I one of those people
that just doesn't find in Practical Joker is

781
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:29,519
funny me either. It's I don't
get that I wanted to like, I've

782
00:53:29,519 --> 00:53:32,880
never watched this, so I have
no rank shows and except Jackass, check

783
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:36,079
Ass is the only one. I
liked. Boiling Points when I was a

784
00:53:36,159 --> 00:53:37,719
kid. Bill the Points was kind
of funny actually because it was just like

785
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:40,559
how much can we piss off somebody
before they well, they don't even know

786
00:53:40,639 --> 00:53:43,679
they're on the show. Ye,
that's the good thing about Boiling Points.

787
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:47,599
Yeah, confident that it was bad
management that caused movies to flop. The

788
00:53:47,599 --> 00:53:52,599
Houdini's returned to New York and founded
their own film company, the Houdini Picture

789
00:53:52,639 --> 00:53:57,159
of Corporation. Whodini then produced and
start in two of his own films,

790
00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:02,519
The Man from Beyond and Alden of
the Secret Service. These two films also

791
00:54:02,559 --> 00:54:07,519
bombed at the box office, Leaden
Hudini to the conclusion that it was time

792
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:09,960
to give it up. How do
you bomb when there's like five movies in

793
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:15,159
existence and nothing else to watch?
Like, how does it bomb? It's

794
00:54:15,199 --> 00:54:17,239
the only shit out, like there's
have you seen this yet? No?

795
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:21,360
Go? Like, how does it
bost? You have to do? It

796
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:24,960
must be like repeats because people like
they wanted to see him perform magic,

797
00:54:25,119 --> 00:54:29,679
not act. The second Yeah,
like the first second movies. People must

798
00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:32,119
have went back a hundred times though
to see that shit. Well, it

799
00:54:32,159 --> 00:54:35,840
was a common thing, like all
the influencers now trying to make movies.

800
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:38,519
It's yeah, weird, I don't
like it. There's a great uh,

801
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:44,039
I've never watched it, but the
trailer for I think like twenty fourteen fifteen

802
00:54:45,119 --> 00:54:49,920
Logan Paul had like a dystopian movie
when all that stuff was hot, like

803
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:54,000
it was peak hungry. Ames and
May's Runner and the Shale Woodley One divergent,

804
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:59,519
so they just he just had its
own like teen dystopian movie, and

805
00:54:59,559 --> 00:55:04,800
it will it looked fucking dog shit, of course it did. At the

806
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:07,639
end of World War One, there
was a huge surgeon people believe in spiritualism

807
00:55:07,639 --> 00:55:12,760
again. With millions of young men
dead from the war, their grieving families

808
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:17,960
looked for ways to contact them beyond
the grave. Psychic spirit mediums, mystics,

809
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:22,360
and others emerged to fill this need. He felt bad about what he

810
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:24,559
did, so he went to war
with the fucking mediums. Oh, he

811
00:55:24,639 --> 00:55:29,719
started exposing though, he started exposing. I respect that's dope. Also,

812
00:55:30,199 --> 00:55:32,679
people with World War One. Maybe
we've talked this before, but people don't

813
00:55:32,719 --> 00:55:37,559
really kind of understand, like we
were only in it for kind of like

814
00:55:37,599 --> 00:55:40,039
a year, two years ish,
a little bit of whatever. He got

815
00:55:40,039 --> 00:55:44,920
in in like seventeen, but like
and it went to the almost to the

816
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:49,599
end of eighteen. But like a
lot of fucking Americans died in that war

817
00:55:49,679 --> 00:55:52,840
for how not long we were in
it. It's like a hundred thousand people.

818
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,519
Yeah, that's our third bloodiest war. It was only like we were

819
00:55:54,519 --> 00:55:57,760
only for like a year and a
half. It's a woodshipper, dude,

820
00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:01,119
that thing was just a meat grinder. Yeah, that was insane. Along

821
00:56:01,199 --> 00:56:07,519
this quest, Houdiny befriended famous author
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who is a

822
00:56:07,519 --> 00:56:13,039
devoted believer in spiritualism after having lost
his son in the war. The two

823
00:56:13,039 --> 00:56:17,199
men exchanged many letters debating the truthfulness
of spiritualism. In the relationship, Houdini

824
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:22,800
was always uh looking for rational answers
behind the encounters, and Doyle remained the

825
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:30,760
devoted believer, ironic considering his most
famous character. Yeah, like mister rational

826
00:56:31,199 --> 00:56:36,360
and like that, and like all
his stories, like the Hounds of the

827
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:40,840
Baskerville's or whatever, like Peep.
Everyone else thinks they're like magic demon hounds

828
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:46,159
and then Holmes, you eventually figures
out that it's Peep. Not. It's

829
00:56:46,199 --> 00:56:49,400
like the Anti X Files, do
you know what I mean? Like,

830
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:52,159
it's like Holmes is Scully, it's
Ully. He's always right, it's hypro

831
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:55,679
Scooby doo. Yeah, yeah,
they pull the mask off. It's just

832
00:56:55,679 --> 00:56:59,760
a dude being a piece of shit. Yeah right. And this friendship ended

833
00:57:00,039 --> 00:57:07,760
after Lady Doyle had claimed to channel
automatic writing from Houdini's mother. Whodini was

834
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:13,360
not convinced automatic writing is a hard
one to convince anyone of do you know

835
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:15,760
what that is? No, it's
where you sit there and freely write,

836
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:19,159
and it's like, oh, I
was like, I'm not thinking about what

837
00:57:19,199 --> 00:57:22,480
I'm writing, so I was channeling
it. Yeah, Hudini was not convinced

838
00:57:22,519 --> 00:57:28,239
because of the many issues that came
about. She wrote it in English.

839
00:57:28,599 --> 00:57:34,159
Oh only speaks German, mother didn't
speak. Yeah, huge plot hole there.

840
00:57:34,239 --> 00:57:38,280
Yeah. The friendship between Houdini and
Doyle ended bitterly and led to many

841
00:57:38,519 --> 00:57:44,559
antagonistic attacks against each other in newspapers. So they kind of they beefed after

842
00:57:44,639 --> 00:57:50,159
this shit because he called his wife
a liar. She was, so it

843
00:57:50,199 --> 00:57:52,719
seems accurate if anything. Is just
offering advice on the act too, it's

844
00:57:52,719 --> 00:57:55,360
like they're also like, hey,
man, I did this. Yeah,

845
00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:58,679
although I have I have a past, I know, I know what they

846
00:57:58,679 --> 00:58:00,320
do. Here are all the tricks
of the trade. I feel like,

847
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:02,440
yeah, it's tough because it's like, I get it, your son died.

848
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:07,920
That's awful, but like these people
are just robbing. Yeah. No,

849
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:12,039
they're like people like grieving widows or
mother's whatever. Blind. Yeah,

850
00:58:12,039 --> 00:58:19,360
they're excluding people's trauma and tragedies for
personal gain. It's awful, but also

851
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:23,599
good on you if you can keep
it going. I guess it's all about

852
00:58:23,639 --> 00:58:27,360
the grind. It's the grift.
Well, that's the grift. The grift

853
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:29,719
is a grind. The grift is
a grind. Yeah. So Houdini went

854
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:32,679
on tour and started exposing the grift. He gave lectures on the topic and

855
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:38,079
often included demonstrations of these tricks during
his performances. He joined a committee organized

856
00:58:38,079 --> 00:58:44,519
by Scientific American who analyzed claims for
a twenty five hundred dollars prize for a

857
00:58:44,639 --> 00:58:50,840
true psychic phenomena. No one ever
received the prize. Yep. Well it's

858
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:53,199
the same thing with the there's a
guy that was doing that for a while

859
00:58:54,039 --> 00:58:59,519
around the seventies and eighties. I
think was it Russian guy Urig Organ or

860
00:58:59,559 --> 00:59:04,079
whatever. Fucking yakov'smearing off. Yeah, and so I'll be at the Russia.

861
00:59:04,599 --> 00:59:08,000
Your mother she misses you. What
in Branson? I don't yack off.

862
00:59:08,199 --> 00:59:12,639
I don't remember that huge, huge
in the eighties and nineties. Really

863
00:59:12,679 --> 00:59:15,760
my song actually yes, and like
the yeah he's still kicking. What does

864
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:17,960
he do? Is he comedian?
And he's like yeah, he's he just

865
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:22,119
makes fun of like Russia. Oh
yeah, no, you're Yuri. Was

866
00:59:22,159 --> 00:59:24,480
this guy who was like I can
bend. He's the like original spoon bending

867
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:27,840
guy. Okay, and like this
guy's like, all right, if you

868
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:30,320
can prove this in my controlled environment, I'll give you like a million dollars.

869
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:35,480
Yeah, he couldn't do shit.
It's not h Yeah, it's like

870
00:59:35,599 --> 00:59:38,199
the way of his own thing here. Yeah, exactly. But he also

871
00:59:38,239 --> 00:59:43,079
spoke in front of the US House
of Representative supporting a proposed bill that would

872
00:59:43,159 --> 00:59:47,280
ban telling fortunes for pay in Washington, DC. Keep the government out of

873
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:52,159
my fifth eye, your third eye, third eye, whatever, that's just

874
00:59:52,239 --> 00:59:58,400
your butt. Yeah, yeah,
it's true. True. The result was

875
00:59:58,639 --> 01:00:04,280
that even though Houdini brought about some
skepticism, it seemed to create more interest

876
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:07,800
in spiritualism. Of course of courses, when you try to ban things,

877
01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:10,760
people want to know why it's being
banned. That's yeah, you gotta just

878
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:14,000
let it die. And also people
just are going to like dig in.

879
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:20,159
Yeah. Absolutely, Also a lot
of spiritualists then, just through countless death

880
01:00:20,159 --> 01:00:23,599
threats to the Whodinis. If I
was a DDI, I'd be like,

881
01:00:23,599 --> 01:00:27,880
well, whatever, I guess,
I guess I'd still get to hang around

882
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:31,639
in another world. Yeah, doesn't
not that bad? Death threats really?

883
01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:37,199
Like we really cursing him? Yeah, really putting spells on. Yeah.

884
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:42,199
On October twenty second, nineteen twenty
six, Houdini was innocent dressing room preparing

885
01:00:42,239 --> 01:00:46,400
for a show at McGill University in
Montreal, when one of three students he

886
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:52,719
had invited backstage asked if Whodini could
really withstand a strong punch to his upper

887
01:00:52,719 --> 01:00:57,880
torso. Houdini answered that he could. The student, Jay Gordon Whitehead,

888
01:00:58,119 --> 01:01:01,239
then asked Whodini if he could punch
him. Houdini agreed and started to get

889
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:07,440
up off a couch when Whitehead punched
him three times in the abdomen before Houdini

890
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:12,880
had a chance to tense his stomach
muscles. He got him slipping, dude,

891
01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:19,719
he caught him asleep. He's getting
up ready three times? That's three.

892
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:22,559
Just a quick succession to a guy
that wasn't ready for it. What

893
01:01:22,639 --> 01:01:27,360
a piece of shit. Houdini turned
visibly pale, and the students left.

894
01:01:29,039 --> 01:01:35,719
What if you weren't magic? You
got him in the jujunum to Houdini,

895
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:38,519
the show must always go on.
Suffering from severe pain, Houdini performed the

896
01:01:38,519 --> 01:01:44,000
show at McGill University, and then
went on to do two more the following

897
01:01:44,119 --> 01:01:50,159
day, moving on to Detroit.
That evening, Houdini grew weaker and suffered

898
01:01:50,159 --> 01:01:52,639
from stomach pain and fever. Instead
of going to the hospital, he once

899
01:01:52,679 --> 01:01:58,800
again went on with the show and
collapsed on stage. We're off stage.

900
01:02:00,199 --> 01:02:02,760
He was taken to a hospital,
and it was discovered that not only did

901
01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:07,559
his appendix burst, it was also
showing signs of gangreen. Oh no.

902
01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:13,679
The next afternoon, surgeons removed his
appendix. The following day, his condition

903
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:16,719
worsened, they operated on him again. Houdini told Bess that if he died,

904
01:02:17,039 --> 01:02:20,840
he would try to contact her from
the grave. Oh come on,

905
01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:22,119
wait, here was this? Wait? Wait? Year was this nineteen twenty

906
01:02:22,119 --> 01:02:24,679
six? Oh? You're getting your
appendix sticking out in twenty six. That's

907
01:02:24,719 --> 01:02:29,639
a rough one. This is like
the start, I feel like of modern

908
01:02:29,679 --> 01:02:34,360
medicine. It's the very start.
Giving her a secret code, Rosa Bell

909
01:02:34,639 --> 01:02:40,360
believe. Houdini died at one twenty
six pm on Halloween Day, October thirty

910
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:45,599
first, nineteen twenty six. He
was fifty two. Headlines immediately read was

911
01:02:45,599 --> 01:02:52,360
Houdini murdered? Kind of did he
really have appendicitis? Was he poisoned?

912
01:02:52,639 --> 01:02:57,039
Why was there no autopsy? Why
did that dick punch him three times in

913
01:02:57,039 --> 01:03:00,440
the row before he was ready?
That's the biggest one for me. Herjini's

914
01:03:00,480 --> 01:03:04,239
life insurance company investigated the death and
rolled out foul play, but for many

915
01:03:04,599 --> 01:03:10,840
uncertain regards that caused to Houdini's death
wingers. Eugini's funeral was held on November

916
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:14,639
fourth, nineteen twenty six, in
New York, with more than two thousand

917
01:03:14,719 --> 01:03:19,840
mourners in attendance. Four years after
his death, Best attempted to contact Houdini,

918
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:23,519
but Houdini never contacted her from beyond
the grave. I always thought he

919
01:03:23,599 --> 01:03:28,800
died from like a trick that went
wrong. Nope, he died from getting

920
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:31,599
punched in the stomach. So just
flamed his appendix for him. I think

921
01:03:31,599 --> 01:03:35,440
you nailed it. He died from
a trick that went wrong, because he

922
01:03:35,480 --> 01:03:37,440
was like, hey, I heard
you could take a punch of the stomach,

923
01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:38,559
and he's like yeah, and then
he got punched in the stomach,

924
01:03:38,639 --> 01:03:43,280
and well, that guy was just
a prick. Let's be real. That's

925
01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:45,840
that guy's hitler for me. He
said, yeah, that guy that punched

926
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:50,199
him three times in quick succession,
after like not even giving him a chance

927
01:03:50,199 --> 01:03:52,159
to get ready. That guy's hitler. I do remember hearing that he got

928
01:03:52,199 --> 01:03:55,239
punched in the stomach and that's kind
of how he died. But I did

929
01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:59,239
think before I wrote this episode that
he a trick went wrong. I thought

930
01:03:59,239 --> 01:04:00,079
it was like he was trying to
cut a bullet or something. There's like

931
01:04:00,079 --> 01:04:03,519
a bullet catching trick. I'd always
heard some magician died from, but maybe

932
01:04:03,559 --> 01:04:06,400
that's that could be. Yeah,
was there somebody that tried to go over

933
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:13,679
Niagara falls in a barrel? Yes, that absolutely happened Oldini. No,

934
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:17,400
but I think somebody died doing it. I also thought Evil can Eevil died

935
01:04:17,440 --> 01:04:20,320
and like they're doing a t twenty
different ways. Yeah, right, Like

936
01:04:20,519 --> 01:04:24,400
it's just these kind of dudes you
never know what actually well and and then

937
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:29,559
you actually dig in, you're like, oh Copperfield did it and lived David

938
01:04:29,559 --> 01:04:32,679
Copperfield whenever Niagara falls in a barrel? Yep, well he also has well

939
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:36,639
he does a bunch of Houdini like
merch, but he also like uh and

940
01:04:36,719 --> 01:04:41,559
put his erection through the barrel hole. That's why he was able to do

941
01:04:41,599 --> 01:04:46,519
it. Yes, Yeah, So
his Houdini's brother mentioned earlier, took all

942
01:04:46,559 --> 01:04:49,920
of his tricks and all of his
stuff. He like Houdinian as well,

943
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:54,119
gave him permission to do so.
But after THEO died, he was supposed

944
01:04:54,119 --> 01:04:58,079
to burn everything and just like get
rid of everything, destroy everything, all

945
01:04:58,159 --> 01:05:01,320
his tricks and everything and all of
his h I guess equipment, and then

946
01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:04,840
he just left it. Yeah he
got I got sold. Yeah. I

947
01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:10,599
mean Charles Stevens I think might be
the magician he's or he was a daredevil,

948
01:05:10,599 --> 01:05:15,239
but he definitely died going over Niagara
Falls in a barrel. Just why

949
01:05:15,280 --> 01:05:19,320
in a barrel be more dangerous people? Because it was back in the day,

950
01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:23,199
dude. Yeah, like I feel
like it was drm barrel days.

951
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:27,199
Yeah, you know, the good
old barrel days of tricks. Put him

952
01:05:27,199 --> 01:05:30,159
in a barrel, rolled down a
hill. What else can we roll them

953
01:05:30,159 --> 01:05:32,480
down in the hill? So you
say they guy that punched to stomachs Hitler

954
01:05:32,519 --> 01:05:38,480
without question about you, Rob,
I think Houdini's Hitler for not letting all

955
01:05:38,599 --> 01:05:43,440
those grieving mothers believe that their sons
were Okay. He was like, listen,

956
01:05:43,639 --> 01:05:45,440
listen, I'm trying to help you. Your sons are in a black

957
01:05:45,519 --> 01:05:50,559
void. Yeah, they're nothing,
they're cold and they missed their moms.

958
01:05:50,599 --> 01:05:55,239
Yeah, that's okay. I try
to help. It's uh, it's John.

959
01:05:55,440 --> 01:06:00,239
What's his crossing over remembers John Ewarts? Yeah, and South worked.

960
01:06:00,239 --> 01:06:02,800
It's such a good breakdown of how
that ship works. But it's so true.

961
01:06:02,840 --> 01:06:08,719
It's just they bug the they bug
the line. Yeah, and they

962
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:13,280
just say vague She like, I
feel like a dad figure. Yeah,

963
01:06:13,320 --> 01:06:16,360
of course. Good guess you had
a connection with your father? Ye do

964
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:19,840
who did go to the graveyards?
Yeah? Get the town gossde. That

965
01:06:19,840 --> 01:06:23,239
would be the most fun part of
that job, just rolling into a new

966
01:06:23,320 --> 01:06:27,159
ship down and figuring out who's fucking
who? Yeah, he died. Would

967
01:06:27,199 --> 01:06:32,840
you learn today? I didn't know
that Whodini was so staunchly anti psychic.

968
01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:35,760
Yeah, it's kind of he was
a convert ryeah. Yeah, I didn't

969
01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:39,480
realize. Well, I didn't even
want to do the stuff in the first

970
01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:42,599
place. He was like, it
was a job. Yeah, pretty much,

971
01:06:42,639 --> 01:06:46,159
it's a gig. I learned how
who died today? Yeah? Actually

972
01:06:46,159 --> 01:06:49,159
had I had no idea how it
happened. I learned that he became the

973
01:06:49,159 --> 01:06:53,480
first man to fly in Australia.
Also a lot today because I didn't really

974
01:06:53,519 --> 01:06:57,239
know much about Houdini. But all
I knew was he was fucking bricked up

975
01:06:57,280 --> 01:07:00,440
on his legs. He's stacked up
because he's a cross country winner in school.

976
01:07:00,559 --> 01:07:04,199
Yeah, that he's got the run
quads that'll crack a chestnut. Bro.

977
01:07:05,119 --> 01:07:09,920
I learned that he was stripped naked
in front of the Germans. I

978
01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:12,760
learned that the Germans kind of had
a thing for this before I didn't learn

979
01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:15,719
I didn't learn anything new about the
Germans. We learned nothing new about the

980
01:07:15,760 --> 01:07:18,880
Germans. So LA's today's episode.
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981
01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:24,719
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982
01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:28,320
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983
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