Abracababble 196: Sometimes Your Car Is Your Dressing Room
Added 2025-06-02 05:28:58 +0000 UTCRJ, Matt and numerous babblers meet on zoom to discuss, RJ semi adult magic, Matt's cruise ship adjustments, people's favorite and least favorite Penn & Teller trick, and more.
Note: This was recorded at sea and if not edited. The audio will be a little zoomy and you wont hear the tops and tail thank you's. Best I could do from the ocean...
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Yes, it did exist! On the plus side, there is another trick that Teller did which I absolutely adored, as did all of the eight-year-old kids in the audience. You might think of it as a stripped down kids oriented version of shadows. They set up a screen and a spotlight and teller would put his hands in the spotlight and make shadows you know, puppy dog and all that stuff and all the things that you’ve seen at summer camp. It started out really really simple things that we all can do, and then it got very, very complicated and you were amazed what he could do with his fingers. and then it got so incredibly complicated that your eyes wandered back to teller’s actual hands, and you realized he was using at that stage elaborate black hanging pieces of cardboard or something that was making amazing patterns on the screen, but that was not his hands and his fingers doing anything anymore. The kids in the audience — you know, the kids who love to scream out at mistakes for sucker tricks? Those kids were absolutely rolling in the aisles. They loved that aspect of it, but I loved it too.
Jim the gay magician who learned a lot about after-market breasts
2025-06-10 07:07:24 +0000 UTCWow, that guy that mentioned the trick with Teller cutting off his fingers… I thought I had imagined that trick. I thought it was a false memory. I remember seeing it on TV when I was a kid and I think they exposed how it was done as well but I’ve never seen it mentioned anywhere and I’ve been unable to find video of it. Amazing. It really existed!
Vincenzo
2025-06-10 03:45:16 +0000 UTCWhich one? I was going to ask what were the favorites
Rachel Hawkins
2025-06-03 00:30:55 +0000 UTCLots of strong contenders for P&T's best trick (Shadows, Whack-A-Teller, Bullet Catch, Water Tank are probably near the top of the list), their worst would probably have to be either The Iron Comic or that one they did in season 5 of Fool Us that had the kids responding to sounds that adults weren't supposed to be able to hear (I think that's how it went; been a while since I saw it)
James Bevan
2025-06-02 08:38:12 +0000 UTC
