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There Was A Guy Named Ed Mishell. He Was This Grandfatherly Guy Who Did All The Illustrations For The Catalogs And Reviewed Magic Effects For The Magic Magazines, So All Of The Magic Dealers Would Send Him Magic Effects For Free-it Was A Great Deal. His Basement Was Full Of This Stuff. He Took Me Under His Wing, And He Would Sneak Me Into The Society Of American Magicians Meetings In New York. It's The World's Oldest Magic Organization.

I Had A Point Of View, Which Was Different. I Looked At Magic As Theater, As Storytelling, And I Tried To Have An Approach That Was Different From What They Were Doing. "how Can I Move People And Really Get Them To Dream With A Card Trick, With Coin Magic, Or Even A Piece Of Stage Magic?"

To Make Magic Credible On Screen Is Always Very Difficult. The Story Is The Most Important Thing. That Is What Should Win. If Sacrifices Or Compromises Are Made, It's Usually For Story. Story In Magic Is Very, Very Important To Me. That's What I've Really Championed Through My Career.

Everyone Was Talking About Having Airplanes Disappear. And I Said, "wait, Wait, Wait. That's What You Like? I'd Tell You A Story About Something Like My Girlfriend Leaving Me, And The Magic Was Really Hard. The Airplane Thing Was Comparatively Easy, And People Liked That Thing?" I Realized At That Moment, The Power Of The Simple Idea.

Tommy Chong Connects To The Pipe A Lot.