 Now I'm in a very peculiar business folks. Oh, not the magic stuff now I I'd levitate the ladies in the air and I saw them in several pieces incidentally It's my Ferdin wish that someday a lady magician will saw a gentleman in several pieces and perhaps forget to put them back together again in some cases But I do that sort of thing. I I appear on stages around the world as a conjurer Now the American term for it is magician It's not a good expression because if you look in the dictionary The strict definition of magician is one who uses magic and magic the definition I prefer from a leading dictionary is The attempt to control nature by means of spells and incantations Now ladies and gentlemen in my time as you might have guessed I have tried spells and incantations No good You can spell an incant all you want The lady will still be on the couch waiting patiently to float into the air and will be imprisoned in the box and the saw blade Descending upon her unprotected midriff and in some danger of being severely scratched if not worse Spells and incantations don't work You have to use skull-duggery and let me make it very clear what the magical trade the conjuring trade of Mark Reckless Conjuring is the approximation of the effect of a true magician using means of subterfuge and trickery The magician if you will in the American usage is an actor playing the part of a wizard We are entertainers. I don't think that there are many folks But there are some out there by David Copperfield's own admission to me who still believe that really He can do the things that he purports to do Now after a magical performance sub we've all undergone the same experience all of us in the trade You get people coming to afterwards and saying I really enjoyed what you did Thank you so much for coming and you say well, it's great to be here I'm happy that you were pleased with it and then they they but when you say but You know what the the business with the you know what the the bottles there that multiplied anything after that Obviously, that's a trick and the one where you you know you did the thing with the with the rings and the ropes That's Actually, that's a trick, but The one where you told the lady what word she'd chosen out of the newspaper that that of course can't be a trick Yes, that's a trick too, but it's disguised as a miracle of a semi-religious nature And they wink at you and they say sure And they walk away and they tell their friends afterwards. Well, he won't admit it, but we all know