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Richard Turner

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“That was very difficult, and that was probably where some rebellion took place. Was shipped off to a special school where they had what was called a VH room back then, visually handicapped. And now you say visually impaired, politically, much more polite than visually handicapped. And I hated the word handicapped, and I despised the word blind when I had to go to the school. And my sister, Lori, she only went there one year. She rebelled so much. She said, put me back on a regular school. She refused to continue to go.”
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“See, we'd go on up, and there would be corner, I had a jellyfish with the things coming down, and a shark in the middle, and just different things that I replicated from an image I saw in National Geographic book. And so from ages five, six, seven, eight, I was the best artist in the school. And I could, like I said, see a picture and I could pretty much replicate it. And then when I, you know, nine and I had scarlet fever, then I started losing that ability to paint and draw.”
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“Was something I had beforehand. I remember when I was five years old in kindergarten and we were finger painting class. And I had a picture of a national geographic image that I saw of a seascape. And so all these other kids are just doing the finger painting their nose and their ears and their hair and their table. And I come up with this seascape. And to this day, what is it? 60 years later, over 60 years later, I can still see the exact thing that I created 60 years later. And it was started off with the ground, and then I had seaweed, I touched your deck.”
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“But anyway, so I considered a real blessing that I had. Have this strange condition because I use it all the time. And like I said, I consider myself very blessed. And within seconds, I can shake someone's hand. And I can tell their height, weight, characteristics about them, and my mind will create an image of what I think they look like. Sometimes I'm totally out in left field, but it'll create my own impression of that person. And then when they're talking, I will see some strange looking conglomeration, mouth moving, even though it's not necessarily flesh-colored or flesh-looking or human looking.”
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“If I turn my head, I have to be looking at the object like my medicine cabinet is the example. I have a friend who's a writer. He thought this was interesting. My medicine cabinet, I'm going, where is that campophonique? And I see everything in my medicine cabinet. I'm going down. Ah, there it is. And I'm seeing everything yet. The door's closed. Okay. But now if I turn this way, I have to see it in my mind. I can't see it in front of me. Kind of interest”
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“Geometric shapes or images to create the image of an arm, the image of the cards. So it's not flesh and blood colored the same way you would see it. But I will see the thing, the image of the constructed within my mind, what I'm looking at. And then I'll analyze it and I'll see everything going on. Yeah, there's a solid object between me and what I'm looking at. But yet, here's an interesting thing if I turn like this, can't do it.”
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“I'll see it floating in the air just like you'd see it on a computer screen. My mind takes a picture of it and I have what's called an adetic memory and then I just files away and I bring it back up or would I practice it with cards and I do this every time at a restaurant or when people and I'll have the table and I'm watching the move and I'm analyzing something I'm doing and I'll see it and my mind will create the image and it's not flesh like you have it's more of a conglomeration of all kinds of”
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“And without a single piece of paper, then I tell my dad, okay, he was my cutter. I said, this board has to be 192 and a quarter inches. And my dad is a genius. My dad was a worked, well, he was one of my role models. But I can't tell him or my wife what I'm going to do because I can't explain a thousand cuts. What I'm doing is all in here. And so then we'd start putting it together. And then he'd watch this whole thing come together. He goes, now I understand what you say, what you were talking about doing. So that's one of the ways that I'll use it. And probably the thing I use it mostly is like I want to remember phone number. I can write the number down in the air.”
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“And I can take it, zoom it in, rotate it, or where I use it most is if I'm designing, I've built my own homes, or like a patio deck. And my wife Kim will tell you, I'm sitting in my chair and I'm watching in full three-dimension, like virtual reality. I basically live in virtual reality. And so my whole spectrum is my own computer. So I want to design a DELC and I built this three-level deck and I would say, okay, I need four by 12s post down, four by 12 across there, and then two by sixes. They'll anchor in there, and you'll watch me looking back and forth, engineering this giant project with a giant project with a thousand cuts. It was three levels, stairways, hanging swings, built-in flower beds.”
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“Yes, it just back and forth, your depth, forward. And the thing about it is I can take any particular image. And I won't get slapped, but she might go again. I can take a picture of an image of my beautiful wife in her bikini.”
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“And they're royal blue to blue to turquoise blue to sky blue to emerald green to lime green all the way down that spectrum. And there are just random strokes and then floating around is, like I said, every subconscious image you can imagine. And just pick yourself underwater in a pool with the light coming in and the light spectrum breaking down like a prism. Break some lights, so all these colors just floating around, and it's all the images are two dimensional, but they're layered three-dimensionally, if you can picture that.”
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“Okay, and then it's always maroon, which is my favorite color, one of my favorite color in the red spectrum. So the brick, what would be the gray mortar is actually maroon. And then the red bricks. And in those bricks are all every geometric shape, circles, squares, triangles, stars, just every geometric shape you can imagine. And in those shapes will be every subconscious image that's floating around in my brain. That's the red spectrum. He said, if I remember, that's the lower part of the brain. And then the blue spectrum, which is, I call it the right brain, the analytical. The other is the blue spectrum, which is very artistic. There's no RAN. It's totally random. If you picture, I call it like breaststrokes, breaststrokes. I like breast strokes. There's only two breasts that I'm allowed to stroke. And they belong to Kim.”
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“There's something I'm looking at it right now. I'm in the blue spectrum. And to explain the difference between blue and red, I have a neural scientist that was doing some interviewing me for some projects and stuff. And he said the red spectrum, which is more geometric shapes. Everything is, first of all, there's a grid. It's usually a grid like layers of bricks, and they're always perfectly aligned and perfect rectangle bricks laid out just like a brick.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then he's documented a few others. And I'm the most extreme case on the planet. Most people, first of all, let's kind of give you a picture view of what CBS is, Chabonay. And that's where a person is blind and should see nothing will see sporadic colors or splatters or pieces of images or just some visual things almost like hallucinations. Right. And they're sporadic. In my case, it's 100% 24-7. And it's not just part of my vision. I see a 160 degree kaleidoscope of beautiful, vivid colors, patterns, shapes. Every subconscious image you can imagine. And I don't see them in the back of the brain like when you dream in or imagining, I look at them. I see them in front of me. I see them in external space, just like you're seeing me in external space.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, I'm sure you're familiar. He has two books, one called Hallucinations, the other one called The Mind's Eye, where he goes into specifics on CBS. And he's probably documented more cases than anybody. And up till 1990, there was only six documented cases. And then he's a few.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My world that I live in First, let me explain what CBS Chaubonet syndrome is first documented in 1760 by Charles Bonnet Charbonnet. And it's a very rare condition. And Dr. Oliver Sachs, he's a best-selling author, and I'm sure he amazed.”
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“Fish tacos that my wife made. She makes the best fish tacos anywhere on the planet. My wife, Kim. And I down those things and then shower. And here we are.”
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“And you understand this because you're an athlete yourself. That's another thing I do because it wakes me up. It gets the adrenaline going, the endorphins shooting, and because I have shows all week last week, every day. And I flew in last night at 9 a.m. at 9 p.m. And I thought, okay, I need to be on my best game because I'm meeting Tim Ferris and we're going to be talking for two hours. And I have been, my voice was already worn from all the shows I've done. And what's the best way? First person says, rest, relax, get ready. I was in the gym and then all of a sudden I started at five and I went, it's 11 minutes after seven, I've been in here for two hours and 11 minutes. My rides are going to be here in 49 minutes dashed to down to.”
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“One that really probably set my life on fire was James Garner in Maverick. He was the cool slick gambler and I wanted to be a car shark. So those are the three things, but that's really what started me off on taking things to the extreme. Whatever someone else did, whatever they benched, I was going to bench more. Whatever their split was, I got to where I could do a 200 degree split. In fact, there was even video out there. I'm stretched across two chairs and I'll touch my head to the floor. So anyway, I just had this thing of whatever someone else did, I had to top it. Not that I was able to top everybody, which I was not, but the top people in the top 1%, and I trained with some very world-class athletes, you know, and I either trained them or trained with them. And people had a hard time, Frank, keeping up with me.”
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“Go scream into his death. And I was afraid I'd be that coward that would look down and panic and fall down. Three movies on the other side that affected me. One was Ben Hur, starring Charlton Heston. There's a scene in the movie where he's pulling the oars with his big bulging biceps. And that image of strength made me want to be stronger. I want to be strong. I want to be strong like him. Another one was the green hornet starring Bruce Lee as Cato. Cato. And I thought, I want to kick like Cato. And the third one was...”
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“Ferguson beat me up and others, anyway, so I didn't want that. And then there was another show that affected what kind of caused me to go off the charts the other direction was called Lost in Space. And there was a little boy on there, Billy Mummy, play Will Robinson. And there was the man on the show, Dr. Smith, who was the man, the coward, hiding behind a rock while this goofy looking monster made out of paper mache would come walking up and Billy would save the day, the little kid. And I thought, he's brave. And I was afraid of turning out like Dr. Smith. And then the third thing was Tarzan movies. You'd see them walk across a tree spanning two cliffs that maybe a hundred feet down, feet down, and then there was always the guy that turned around and say, whatever you do, don't look down. And then the next guy would be the coward would look down and...”
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“And then when at 10 years old, I found out that I had asthma. All of a sudden I'm just deathly sick because we were very poor. Our house literally was a structure sat on a ditch about a six foot ditch. And my dad poured concrete down in that ditch to make my bedroom. And during the winter, my bed would have four, five, six inches of water under it, which means molds, and I was definitely allergic to molds. And I would just get extremely ill. And so I was, now I'm blind, had asthma, and I was skinny. Piggy was blind asthma, and he was chubby. And so I thought, I don't want to be a piggy. I don't want to be a coward. And I was afraid I was going to be a coward because I was afraid and I was afraid of getting beat up. And I was afraid when I'm walking down the street, a guy named Leland picks a fight with me and I get hurt.”
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“That said, and the same thing with my sister one minute, she went from full sight to legally blind. And so now we were forced in second, third, and fourth grade to watch a movie called Lord of the Flies. And I to this day don't know why they made kids watch a horrifying movie like that. And what it was about was a group of kids stranded on an island and a group of boys. They were all between probably eight to 12 years old somewhere in that age frame. And there was one boy called Piggy. And he was a chubby boy. And he had to wear glasses and he had asthma. And they found out that they could use his glasses to make a fire. And because he was chubby, they called him piggy. And so he was picked around and he had asthma.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, part of it is when I was growing up, I was always the second smallest or second smallest in my class. And I would get beat up or I'd get pushed around. And we watched and then we haven't really got off on this point yet. At nine years old, I started losing my sight. My sister Lori, who I call my genius sister because he's brilliant. And we both got scarlet fever. I was nine, 1963. She was five. And that caused for me within a matter of moments. I'm fourth grade watching this chalkboard and all of a sudden it just went blurred. It was like someone took the chalkboard and smeared the chalk.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, and then there's another thing I like to say. Discipline breeds discipline. They say, how do you put in time? And when I'm telling people when they want to train or something, I say, the more you do something, the more you can do of it. Discipline breeds discipline. You do something, and then the more you're able to do it, and the better you do it. And then they say, well, I just can't run a marathon. I said, don't run a marathon. Right now, I want you to just walk down the distance of two houses and walk back. Make it so easy you can't talk yourself out of it. The next day, walk the distance of three houses, come back. Then the next day, jog down the distance and come back. And then eventually, your body starts adapting to the habit. And those endorphins start getting released. And then after a certain period of time, it's like, will you get back into the house? Does it have to be a marathon?”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Watch my videos for 30 years now. And it just takes a long time. But anyway, get off track. Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. Same thing with in the martial arts. You know, you throw a sidekick. The people that swoop the kick up as they go. You lift it and you shoot it in like a blade. You practice it wrong. You sit there practice when you're done. It's not wrong. It's perfectly wrong.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so, if there's movement being made, when you're taking the separate card out and the top card is going back, you don't have a dead deck. You have movement of two different movements. The second card coming out, the top card going back. Now watch my second deal. There's no, I'm not crossing the thumbs at all. And my left thumb is, there's no leaking to the card at the other corner. And I'm not going anywhere near the top of the deck. That particular second deal, I have practiced, well, I've done in front of a live audience about five million times, and in practice I've done it over a hundred million times, that one move. And I proclaim, I say that it's probably the most difficult move in all of sleight of hand because there's only three other people that are getting it down. And one guy's been working on it after he...”
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“First of all, you're pushing the top card over to receive it with the other hand. So why is the right thumb bypassing the left thumb so they as exposure to the top of the deck where that second card is to get a hold of it? That is a totally unnatural action. But you'll see it all the time. And then you don't have a dead deck. When a Vernon's students and who became a peer at Vernon's was a guy named”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Very, very, very good question, Tim. First of all, I say practice does not make perfect. They say, practice makes perfect. No, practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. You can practice something wrong when you're done. It's perfectly wrong. And I see it in my industry all the time. They'll practice a second deal in some awkward fashion where the most common one is a strike second, and I'll give a visual clue. picture the car is turned face up on the deck. They'll hold, first of all, usually they hold the deck in real tight, what's called a mechanic script or a real deep grip, and I'll whiten up the grip a little bit. And then when they go to take the card, they'll bypass the card they've taken so they can hit the second card and deal it out. And this is the standard second deal that you'll see people do, but has all kinds of tells.”
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“Fight, or in other days, I got up at six in the morning, went to bed at three, and I might have practiced 20 hours that day. But my average practice time was 20, it was 14 hours. And that was sustained for 26 a week. And Vernon saw this obsession in me. And so he took me on as, well, a student protege and cut to the chase, I became the recipient of a century worth of his most guarded card table artifice techniques that he traveled the world finding down these hustlers and learning their moves. And I still have things today that only he and I know. And I've created things today that only he and I know. And he's not telling anybody. I think it was Benjamin Franklin said three people can have a secret, but you have to kill two of them.”
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“Exactly. Won't get the money, you get a double banger, shot twice. But Vernon, then I showed him the move I just showed you. And that technique, he thought that was kind of clean. It was more natural. And so I remember what he said. And I went home and I practiced what he said. I don't care how much you move your hand, no matter how fine that brief is, it's unnatural action. So naturalness. And that's what I learned from Vernon. Naturalness. You have to be natural in your execution. And so I practice it. And the next time he saw me, he goes, now that's better. That's better. And he took a liking to me because he would see that I would put in, I practice at that time. And this is, and it's not an exaggeration, even I almost wish it was because I would practice average of 14 hours a day. That was my average time practicing. But sometimes it might be only 10 hours because I spent extra time in the gym because I was training for some kind of...”
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“Get the money. Well, not get the money, but it was won't get the money, which is, in other words, it's not good enough for the card table. They'll get the money.”
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“And anyway, so at the table was Di Vernon and Tony Giorgio. And Giorgio was, you know, he was about six foot four, mean, nasty, mafia hitman. I always used to say he never had to act. He just played himself. Mean, nasty mafia hitman. And because we had battles for altogether 38 years, but we battled each other for 20 years. And at first, there was no threat. But I'm showing Vernon my moves. And he goes, Vernon goes, oh, now that's all right, but I don't care how fine you breathe. When you're moving your hand like that, it's unnatural. It tips you off. And every time I did anything, Giorgio chipped from the other table, not involved in our little private get-together would yell. We'll get the money. We'll get the money. And then I show himself, won't get the money. We'll get the money.”
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“And as he would deal to the other players, see that top card is not moving. For those that can't see what we're doing, I'm dealing the cards in slow motion. And the top card is not moving as the second card comes out, but it looks as though it's the top. Like here's even with one hand. And when the cards face down, I turn it face down. Now you're watching and you can't tell that you've been swindled. So he would take him down. And so then he became an actor in the 60s.”
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“That was, he would peek the top card or know what the top card is, and then he would deal the card under the top card. So you can see that card on top, what's that card?”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, use these slide of fan using card techniques, exactly gambling moves, whatever his artifice was. Probably in that case, a peak with a second deal.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Bust out man is somebody who a casino will have on hand Oh hey that's Tim Ferris He's got some money Okay, Tony take him out fast So bust out man means that you're gonna take you down there take you down quick get that money from you or if it turns out that man that Tim Ferris he was just too lucky Okay, Joe, you're out of here Tony, you're in Get that money back”
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“If I would have known he was going to go for it, I wouldn't have picked out the cheapest coat in the place with a tan corduroy piece of crap that I still have today because it's how I first met Vernon. And so I still have it as a souvenir. But anyway, so I get to the castle and Vernon, there was two guys in the room, Di Vernon. And this was in the library, which was separate, closed off to the public. And another guy named Tony Giorgio, who's best known as the actor in the movie Godfather. He played Brunette Tataglia, which was Vidial Cordione's toughest hedgeman. And there's a scene in the movie where a guy takes a knife and stabs his hand to the bar. The guy with that knife, that was Tony Joyce. And he was a bust out man back in the 40s and 50s.”
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“High card for that coat. I thought to myself, this is my lucky day. I said, okay, I'll go for that. He backs up and said, no, no, I'm just kidding. And I said, tell you what, I took out twos and a queen.”
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“Searches of the stars where we train celebrities due to circus acts. And I was, for better or worse, I'll just call them his gopher. But I lived with him, and he's a dear, dear, dear friend for Hasbin for 50, almost 50 years. And so we were training for the circus of the stars. And Lyndon McCarter's show called Wonder Woman. And Di Vernon heard I could do some very difficult moves with the cards. I just turned 21 and I was going to meet him at the Magic Castle. And I found the night before I had to have a suit to get into the castle. At that time, I couldn't afford a suit. I didn't have a suit. And so I thought, okay, I had my gambling money. I always had a, you know, at that time stacks of 20s, which was a lot of money for me. And so I went to the North Ridge Shopping Center, set my deck of cards on a coat rack, started thumbing through coats. The sales guy comes up to me and says, I'll cut you.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, please go ahead. I was working with a guy named Bob Yurkis, Y-E-R-K-E-S. He was just at my show on Sunday. He's going to turn 87 next month. He's been in stunts. He's been in stunt business for 73 years. His first movie was in 1947 with Elizabeth Taylor, and he's doubled everybody under the sun, literally thousands of stunts on television, thousands of stunts in film. Like the movieing infernal or earthquake, he died seven times in earthquake. Multiple times in towing infernal and on and on. He was on the move recently with Tom Hanks on angels and demons. He was the minister that was being burned alive and they forgot to turn the fan on to blow him out. And Dalton Hanks says, well, at least you didn't have to act because he wasn't acting. He was screaming, turn them. I'm hot. Anyway, but anyway, so I was working with him. We were training. It was a show called.”
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“Vernon had it mastered by the time he was like 12 years old. And so he spent his life hunting down hustlers. He's the first one that found Alan Kennedy in 1930-31, who supposedly could deal college from the middle of the deck, which no one thought that was possible. And so that information was the most closely guarded pieces of sleight of hand that you can get a hold of if you get a hold of it. He had passed it on just special people like Charlie Miller and a few others. I met him in 1975. I'll tell you a quick backstory. Kind of funny.”
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“Rings and make eggs come out of their mouth, or whatever, something along those lines where a smaller audience, but that's called parlor magic. Then there's the close-up magician who will do stuff right in front of your eyes, like they'll make coins jump from one hand to the other, or they'll do card tricks. But the most difficult of all forms of sleight of hand is the work for the card table, the gambling work. And that work is the most closely guarded information of all sleight of hand. Nowadays with the internet, just about everything is exposed. And Vernon, wanting to know about more about the moves of the gamblers, first read a book written in 1902 called Expert at the Card Table by S.W. Erdneys. And nobody knows who Erdnes was. And at that time, the magicians in the 19 teens and 20s, oh, we don't care about that book. That's too hard to learn.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Divernon, first of all, was born in 1894. He lived to be over 98 years old. My wife, my beautiful wife, Kim, and I threw him his 98th birthday party two months before he passed away. And he was known as the man who fooled Houdini. And that took place 100 years ago this year. Wow. 100 years ago. And Houdini had a boat that he saw the same trick three times he could figure it out, running did it for him five times. He couldn't figure it out. And so he was known as the man who fooled Houdini and for over a half a century he was the best in the world with a deck of cards. And there's different types of magic. There's the big, what we call furniture movers, the big illusionists, and most of those things, that type of show, is really money more than talent. You just have to pay $200,000 to buy this big illusion that turns a cat into a person, you know, inside of a cage or whatever. And then there's the parlor magician with the link.”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The magic castle is to magic with the grand opera to country Western music. It's the premium place for magicians to perform around the world. And they have what is the equivalent of the Oscar, the Academy of Magical Arts Awards, AMA Awards. But it's a 27,000 square foot Victorian mansion built in 1907. And you go in, it's strictly for adults, 21 or over, must have ID. Back to the old days, you have to have coat and tie. You cannot overdress. If you're underdressed, they don't let you in. They don't like what you dressed. They don't let you in. And this by invitation only, but it's just a very, very fun venue and place to perform. I just got returned from performing at the castle. Night before last. I just forgot last”
2020-02-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT