David Blaine we've been talking all
about and we're so excited to have him
on a magician a performance artist an
endurance artists so many different
things that you do you have Florida
theater tonight's to learn more about it
go to david blaine comm we also have a
ticket giveaway coming up but welcome to
River City live thanks for taking time
out of your schedule to come hang with
us we're really excited Abbi so half of
me yeah so you know what things I just
want to talk about it's just obviously
you do magic but I think you really made
it cool at least in my eyes when you
came on the scene and you did Street
magic and then just all the other things
that you do because it's not like I hate
to say like a Vegas show you're just
like real and you just like tap into
people and the connection you have it's
amazing you kind of put it back on the
map I think for a lot of people it's
because I grew you know I grew up in
Brooklyn with a single mother so the
first nine years of my life or so we
didn't have much so I love magic but I
just used playing cards that was all
there was so as I started working on
magic wasn't kits and things like magic
kids magic sets so I learned how to
focus on the people which to me was a
magic and then I started realizing the
reaction is really the most interesting
part of the magic and then that was
where that idea and when you did Street
magic it's the connection with total
strangers and you know when you walk up
like hey somebody in the club because
that's like your thing and then you
bring people together and at the ending
there's like a crazy connection with
like a group of people just by watching
what you did yeah that's why I took me
such a long time to develop the actual
stage show that you're coming to me
because it was like I wanted to figure
out how to make a show that has a kind
of honest interaction so there's a lot
of audience participation yeah the whole
show is that's amazing what started your
love for magic when I was like 5 years
old my mother gave me a deck of cards
and I held that deck of cards all the
time I would fall asleep with it because
I thought it was such a cool thing and
then I would wait for her sometimes at
the library and this librarian taught me
a very simple self working mathematical
trick when I did it to my mom she went
crazy like it was the most amazing thing
so I actually started to believe that I
was a magician or that I could be I
still believe it as a kid because I mean
I feel like there's this higher
intellectual part of what you know
that's not true but but there is a truth
to magic and cards and numbers does help
mathematically so until I was like
probably 13 years old I was really
really strong in school but then I
started thinking more about magic and
other things what about the endurance
side of things that you do where you
have to be I would imagine in just
amazing physical condition you know like
where you're you're buried or you'll go
days without food where you actually
have to go to the hospital later you
know I mean where they have to like that
actually began because of once again the
opposite so I was born with my feet
turned down I was asthmatic so I was
like the weak kid and I would be at the
YMCA and I was on the Sun team but I
because my feet weren't straight I
couldn't swim as fast so while the kids
were learning how to breathe turning
their head I would just swim straight
and not turn my head to breathe and I
would just do laps back and forth
holding my breath and the coach stopped
doing that but I was able to keep up
with the other kids that way so I kept I
kept pushing myself with endurance
without realizing it and then at the age
of six I discovered Houdini and I read
here's a guy that could stay underwater
for three and a half minutes while
scaping from shackles so you know I
start to become obsessed with the idea
of like what can be done how long does
it take you to come up with like some of
your big bigger expert exhibitions this
show that I'm working on tonight is
basically like 20 years of wow you're
really proud of that I'm sure
because combination and everything what
about around with your family I mean
when you go to a family reunion or a
party where you've known everybody for
years and years is there an expectation
for you to entertain everyone around
here can you just let loose and be
yourself I mean everywhere I go
basically I'm always doing magic is that
because you want your because people are
something right
wait well you're just gonna say eating
space when we started this has been
actually already kind of started I don't
even your I don't know maybe for this
one maybe I'll slide in between yes okay
okay and you see all the cards are
different I don't know if they can see
but yeah okay good sort of any card that
you want you can have so just choose one
doesn't matter uh any card with Queen
Hearts okay and let the camera see it
and you know what I would actually if
you could put your name on it - that
would be really good and the visible
border yeah and if you could show it so
they can all see it great here it is
good and you could close that so and by
the way you didn't check but the ink is
dry it's not coming off that is correct
you'll see that it's a little far but I
like how you're thinking of things to
check on you because we don't even know
how to go that far in palma no the other
oh now look what i do with your card so
i put your card on your hand and the ink
won't get on your hand put your finger
right on the center yeah and I use this
card as well yeah eight of clubs yeah I
don't know if you can all see that it's
like the eight of clubs watch them move
I just get it just right I'm not
sleeping in that I don't know why I'm
like nervously been shuffling our cars
um so we'll do this maybe nobody
examined the cards but just yeah yeah I
mean I can clearly see that that's just
a regular I mean can they see yeah so
now here's the idea when you do this
I guess we can have a few people do it
do like this
no we'll do this way okay just grab take
like two cards doesn't work good okay
don't you take you take two okay
the last did you take two or what yeah
we take Group a group okay good - is
that cool
doesn't matter don't look at that like
um by the way if before you look at them
if you want to change anything you can
you're not sure but I didn't look at you
guys liquor now no I didn't like oh wait
so hold on there's a four digit number
that it's very important to you but not
something like the pin code - you know
you have that number
yeah mm-hmm let me tell you no zeros on
them no zeros on the number what is it
1-1 3-8 yeah let me see your your card
that is amazing so a little backstory
just decided out before we were alive on
air even was asked to pick some numbers
take a picture of exactly that sequence
which is exactly what you had that is
amazing all right so David Blaine
tonight go see him at the Florida
theatre to learn more go to david blaine
tom or you could simply just call 904
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