Do Go On - 92 - Harry Houdini

Episode Date: July 26, 2017

Well we always said this podcast was a little bit of magic! Now even more so, as we discover the man famous for blowing peoples minds with his tricks! It's the one and only Harry Houdini! And as per usual, there's a lot of nonsense as well. Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] the show and get rewards like bonus episodes:www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Now is the time, mycomputercareer.edu. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit PlanetBcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. Hello and welcome to episode 92 of Do Go On. My name is Dave Warnocky and I'm here with Matt Stewart and Jess Perkins. Hi guys. Hi Dave. Hey going Jess. Very well thank you. Playing my favorite game of trying to mouth along with Dave's introduction. So that's why I said episode 92 I didn't see you were not expecting that I was not Because it's episode 90. Oh, it is episode 92. Jess can't count that well No

Can you believe we made it this far though? No with with Jess's poor numeracy skills. No, I can't How do you how do you get through a podcast podcast so long without with one of the three being not the best ever counter? Because I am the best ever counter. Right. Yeah, he makes up for it. Yeah, and I'm the most average. Yeah, exactly. That's why this podcast works. Yeah. That's why we're going to make it all the way to 99 and then it starts again, right? Yep. Millennium bug. Oh no. Bloody lips in here we upload through is gonna crash when we get to 100. No podcast has ever made 100 episodes, right?

No, not that I'm aware of. That is an alternative fact. We can't prove it, so therefore it must be true. It must. It's simply must. Oh, it's simply must. Oh, it's simply must. Oh, you must and it must.

But, in the meantime, I'd like to tell you a story. Yes. Let's part. Yeah, I'm really excited about this one. For the podcast. Yeah, great. That works out really well. But also just in general as well, actually, I'm really excited about this one because I think this is going to be fun. But then again, maybe then it won't be fun. You know, it's hard to tell. It's hard to know. Well, let's find out together. This is the show, of course, what we do at a report. On a topic it is Jess's turn to do such a thing. And as per usual, gentlemen, I have been already in a question. There you go on there. I said to you 10 minutes ago, I said, fuck, I'm not into question.

Dave, you kindly said, well, you could write one now. And I didn't. So I will say to you, who's? Good start. That's a real strong question start. Got it because if you'd said I'm, it would have been difficult to change your question. I'm not just an upward inflection at the end, that's the key. Yeah. I'm really good.

I'm good. What emotion right now? See Dave, that's a question. Pterbed? I'm perturbed. No. Who's name is synonymous with magic? Merlin.

Merlin's good. Harry Potter. Also a good answer, no? Thinking of the guy who falls under the water in the box with the chains. Harry Houdini. Correct! Zigmund Freud.

Fuck. You think you've sick-free'd in Roy? Sick-free'd in Roy, that's it. Who, when I was young, Afloneist, when I'm any holidays, including to Las Vegas, when I was eight years old. I went to Las Vegas. I went to Las Vegas.

We went to Las Vegas. Me too, when you were eight, that's right, same thing. Did you see Sig Freedon Roy? No. Who, at the time, it was not frowned upon that they performed with white tigers. And then one of them, for you, later attacked either Sig Freed or Roy.

Around the time it was frowned upon. Yeah, I think that's when people started frowning to be honest. Yeah. Oh hang on it's a wild animal. Huh? And yeah like quite endangered. Yeah and this is quite cruel. You know all that sort of stuff. Anyway I was part of that cruelty when I say it's no biggie. Pretty cool. I said it's circus circus that was pretty sick. Oh I stated the Hilton. You did not you face the Hilton. Oh, you did not, you piece of shit.

You did the Hilton. You piece of shit. It had a Star Trek exhibition at the bottom. My parents aren't as Star Trek neither were we, but we had an amazing ride. Wow. It's Hilton's the chain that Donald Trump is right. The Hilton.

Oh, I don't think so. The Hilton. He's one, you know, he's one, the other one's that Donald Trump. That's what he's got his, he's a Hilton, isn't he? He's one of the Hilton, the famous Hilton's dad. Yeah, yeah. Trump is a Paris Hilton's dad. Yeah, he's got a famous tower.

Hilton's tower. On Mount Hilton. Yeah. Is that, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Taefe looked at me like I was science-owned weed. That's day for you. Classic Dave. He's a ways. Curple. Anyway, are we talking about Harry Houdini?

We were talking about Harry Houdini. Very cool. Very cool. I didn't know a lot to be honest, and it's actually a really cool story. This was suggested by Brett Burruss. I'm sorry if I said that wrong. On Twitter, so thank you, Brett. Oh my god, is he like, uh,

Hungarian, which is, I believe. Oh my god is he like a Hungarian which is I believe is he a Hungarian? Who, Danny? He was born in 1874 in Budapest. That's in Hungary. Yeah. I'm just wondering if this guy maybe is like a big Hungarian guy we've just mispronounced the Twitter name but anyway. Or I nail the pronunciation and he may or may not be Hungarian. Or he could have just thought, Harry who Danny would be an interesting topic I shall suggest it to my friends at Dugo on. I've seen it in the hat and I've thought, kind of, that would be a good one. That would be a good one. And we're about to find out if it is. Okay, here we go. Let's roll the dice. So 1874, born in Budapest. His parents were Rabbi Maya Samuel Wise and Cecilia Steiner.

His dad arrived in the United States on the... no sorry, so Eric. His name was Eric Wise. That's Harry Houdini's real name. Eric Wise? Eric was a good name. He was not as magical, was it? Not as magical. He arrived in the US on the 3rd of July 1978 So he was about four years old With his mother who was pregnant at the time and he's four brothers The family changed their name to the German spelling it was W E I S Z But now they just went double S classic German spelling I thought yeah, I was I was W I SE like penny wise. No

Is this sound I reckon that would even be pronounced something like vice Yeah, it's not like right right your right your vice vice. Yeah, so people do the people say that you would Would you know you're a German sort of? Dicently German about as German as a Harry who didn't I'm about as German as a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit to learn about Harry Houdini, learn a little bit about David Vornakay. Vornakini. Varnakayni. Wow. I didn't even know how to pronounce my name.

Yeah. You've been saying it wrong for some time. We were very embarrassed for you. Anyway, so they've changed the name of the, they've changed the spelling of this surname. And Eric also changed from E-K to EHRICH. Oh, the classic German. So they've decided to blend in with the American community. Exactly.

The family lived in Appleton, Wisconsin, and where his father was a rabbi. Who did he was one of seven children? Do they know what's causing us? Oh, what's the threshold for that? Well, you think seven's a lot? I think seven's teetering. Back then, probably not even, but even while at all.

Yeah, you're right. It's still a lot of kids though. Like, I'm not pushing out seven. Nah. Do you know what's causing it? I'm obviously. Is there a reason you're not pushing out seven? Yeah.

I know what's causing it, and it's not happening. Right. Because I'm lonely. Loneliness is causing it, right? Four years after moving to the US, so in 1882, his father, the rabbi, became an American citizen. And later they moved, Eric and his father moved to New York City, where they lived in a boarding house on East 79th Street.

Once they found a permanent house, like somewhere for them to live more permanently, the rest of the family joined them. At 12, Eric hopped a freight car and ran away from home. A year later. So it's got a big jump. What's that from? Hopping a freight car.

Once with movement. Stop winking at us. Why? A year later he returned to New York and continued to help support his family by working as a messenger. Hey guys, I'm back. There's hopped a freight car. Well that's a thing. Nothing, no, we don't know much about his year away. He's just gone for a year, came back. Like when Shakespeare disappeared. Hmm. Did Shakespeare disappear? Do you not remember the episode? There's a few unaccounted years. So, literally not. We've discussed this before. I retain very little. Yeah, I'm the same.

I thought we did a quiz about it. William Shakespeare was this very famous playwright. Uh-huh. Playwright. Shaka Spear, eh? That's the one thing you always say. I don't know, I always wasn't going to, and I was like, oh, don't let them down. So anyway, so he's come back and he's helping support the family, he's working a few little jobs like he's a messenger, he's a necktie cutter. I don't know what that is, what I love is.

And a photography assistant, a necktie cutter being my favorite of those jobs. Neck tie cutter. Neck tie cutter. Nick Ty Cudder being my favorite of those jobs. Nick Ty Cudder. Nick Ty Cudder. It's a real specific fabric guy. That's what the broader industry is called. The fabric guys and he specifically... What is the, what would... Taylor. Okay.

Maybe? What would Taylor? What would Taylor? What would Taylor? That's the question. I'm gonna do a topic inside the show So what would Taylor ever and ponder that we just can keep going for now But come back to I'm gonna do a mini topic inside the show, but the question is what would Taylor? May I yeah, please my guess is four

interesting My guess is four interesting My guess is a giraffe Somewhere between the two four giraffes As a child Eric took several jobs making his public debut as a nine-year-old trapezoid artist calling himself Eric the Prince of air Missing out on the on bell. Eric the Prince of air, which I love. The first Prince of air, please call him that.

The first Prince of air. When it became a professional magician, he began calling himself Harry Houdini after the French magician Jean Eugene Robert Houdin. After reading Robert Houdin's autobiography in 1890. Harry incorrectly believed that an eye at the end of a name meant like in French, so it's like, I'm Houdin-y like. I'm Houdin-like. Oh, like Jessica Esk. Exactly. He's Houdin-ish. That's what he should have been. He should have been Danish.

Harry who Danish. Come kinder. That sounds delicious. In later life who Danish claimed that the first part of his new name, Harry, was an homage to Harry Keller. And he also admired it. No, I think he really liked it. I called Hart Hare and he thought if I had the E at the end, that's Harry Hare like. Am I right in saying that? I am a linguist.

New Irish linguist, I've always said that about you. Who do you begin? He's Magic Career the next year in 1891, but had little success. He appeared in a tent act with a strong man, Emil Jarrow. He performed in dime museums and side shows, and even doubled as the wild man at a circus. Don't know what a wild man is, but I love it.

Oh, he's been a professional Thai-neck cutter. Neck Thai-cutter. He's been a professional wild man. What next? What next? What can't he do? Well, it sounds like a lot of things, because he has to have so many chops to pay for.

Yeah, he's not, he's not, he's not successful. He's not successful. He's not successful at any of these. He initially focused on traditional card tricks. At one point he'd build himself as the King of Cards. Ah. The King of Cards, the Prince of Air. Do you know what I mean? He's part of two kingdoms.

Yeah. I started as a prince and then I got promoted to King. But I kept my old title as I chose. I'm the King of Cards of EEEE! In 1893, while performing with his brother Dash, whose name was actually Theodore. Ah, because Dash is great. Dash is a cool name. That's a great nickname.

I'm regretting Bob. But now, Bob can say it's fun. So this is where I keep saying it. Dash, it sounds on, it would have been cool a few years ago, but now it sounds but Bob can say it's fun. So this is around, like he's okay. Dash, it sounds on, it would have been cool a few years ago, but now it sounds a bit like that's what many people in Europe call ISIS. Dash. Dash, dash.

Yeah, right. Okay, this parody name for, for IS, so. Okay, not so cool. Lost a little bit of shine there for me. Sure. Just for me. Sure. On a personal level.

You could, people with half an added surname, maybe would get a nickname like that as well. Oh. Oh, that's cute. Yeah, I understand that. There was, there wasn't a guy at high school who had a half an added surname and some people called him Hiphon.

No. No good. No good at all. Don't like that at all. Bit of general ribbing, hey? Check out bloody two names over here. We call him Haufen Because he's a fuckhead. He's not, but he does have two surnames So the King of Cards is experimenting with escape acts now, right?

And he's performing with his brother Dash at Coney Island for you singing just before! Goodbye my Coney Island baby! The beach-ups? You sing that just before, there you go, so they perform at Coney Island as the brothers Houdini. Do you get why? Because they're like brothers. They are brothers and I get it. The brother Z, Houdini. their like brothers. They are brothers and the brothers see who

Deity who Deity met a fellow performer will amine a Beatrice Bess Raynash by Bess Bess was initially courted by a dash but she and her Deity married in 1894 who she dated his brother and then married Harry. It seemed to happen more in the olden days. Yeah, that's... You don't get that a lot these days. That's weird, that's why. Yeah, right, okay. That's uncomfortable. Imagine that Christmas dinner. Oh.

It's weird, my ex is here. I was gonna say like, olden days is in the 1800s or whatever, but even like I reckon a generation or so back that happened a bit. Yeah, probably. When their world was still very small. So, okay, so. Now people can go out and meet, you know, a second and third person. Yeah. I know two males now.

I've got a choice. I didn't used to have a choice. Now, wasn't a choice back in the day. Hopefully one of them's got a sibling so I can switch across one. And that's just what best did. So now she starts to perform with Harry, replacing Dash in the act and so they- Oh, so he, hot on.

So he's stolen his girlfriend and she's replaced here. Yeah. Oh, that's sad. Yeah, it's real sad. Now the brothers learn them on both fronts. So now, Best and Harry are performing together, and they're known as the Houdinis, not bad. For the rest of Houdinis performing career,

Best worked as his stage assistant. She worked with him in their entire lives. Houdini's big break came in 1899 when he met manager Martin Beck in St Paul, Minnesota, impressed by Houdini's handcuffs act. Beck advised him to concentrate on his skate backs and booked him on a Vortable circuit, like this, so he's performing all over the place.

Within months he was performing at the top Vortable houses in the country, in 1900, Beck arranged for Houdini to tour Europe. Ooh! It was really thinking he'd be more impressed by that. That's fancy. I mean, he's from Europe, so sort of. Okay, but like he moves to the US from his four.

I don't even remember. Imagine my way to a Europe. Imagine. I'll be a bit more impressed than I was just then. Yeah, probably. To be honest, yeah. I think, yeah. Where would you go?

I'm thinking UK. Yeah, UK. The big, the big names. The big, you go the big three obviously, the UK. Russia. Russia. Oh, yeah. Okay, yep. And the Ukraine. The Ukraine. The big three of Europe. The big three, yeah. The UK. The UK. The Ukraine and Russia. Yeah, yeah. I'll just check the podcast stats. Yeah, I can confirm we're huge in the Ukraine. Yeah, chicken Kiev. They love us now. They love it. Thank you. Anyway, so he's touring Europe and after some days of unsuccessful interviews in London who do this British agent, Harry Day, great name, helped

him to get an interview with the manager of the Alambra Theatre. He's introduced all these different people. Oh, I'm impressed by that. You heard of it? I know, I've been to the Alambra and that's the thing in Spain though. Cool. Maybe connected. It's probably named after it's a quite a famous thing in South Spain. Definitely connected. So remember at this stage he's been encouraged to focus more on escape acts rather than the other sort of magic tricks he was trying to do because he's really good at escaping. So he was introduced to a guy called William Melville and gave a demonstration of escape from handcuffs at Scotland Yard. He

succeeded in baffling the police so effectively that he was booked at the Alumberan for six months. His show was an immediate hit and he salary rose to $300 a week. This isn't the early 1900s. He's on good coin. Good coin. Because the police put him in handcuffs and he got out of it. They're like, what? Give him some money. Okay. Who Denny became? Who Denny then became known by a different name now going by the last few nicknames He's had Prince of air King of cards. What's above King president of the United States? No, so Emperor of Disappearing to do with his escape acts. He's particularly good at handcaps

Queen handy. The handy queen. But handy queen. Sorry, fuck, I always get that wrong. You're the one who got it porn titles, the handy queen's a great one. The handy queen, yeah. No, he's now widely known apparently

as the handcuff king. Oh, a sad king. Stuck it king, yeah, I don't think I think you sort of peaked too early. Handcuff king. It's a bit. It's a bit, yeah. It's a too early. It's a bit... It's a bit beige. He toured England, Scotland, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Russia.

The big three there as well. And then he was in the big seven. What's the seven? Oh yeah, sorry, of course. Might have been still annexed by Russia back then. Was it? Well, anyway. Did you even say Russia then?

Yes, you did, you're right. In each city, who did you challenge local police to restrain him with shackles and lock him in their jails? I love the idea that sometimes they're like, mate, we're not doing that. We're a very respectable people. He's like, fine, I'll just throw a rock through to this car's windscreen ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha and that the start of it, Matthew McConaughey is trying to get arrested by his boss, by his mate, a cop to get away from these guys or after him. And he goes, he wouldn't. He's like, no, just get a deal with it yourself so he turns around and punches the cop in the face.

And it comes like half. That's right at the start of the movie, hopefully. I haven't spoiled that for anyone. There's someone who's going, all right, I'm just going to listen at this one podcast. Then obviously finally get around to watching the movie that I cannot wait till watch. I mean, I can. One more podcast. Pondcastly. Pondcast. And I have already waited several years since the film came out. But after this, oh, actually, to be honest, I'm only going to listen the first half an hour

of it. And then I'll listen the rest of it after. Just like finish this. Finish this buffering. Yeah. I don't want to have to wait right at the crux of the movie. Which I don't know what that will be. Yeah, and I hope the, you know, the first five or ten minutes aren't sport from the movie because that is the bit I enjoy the most.

Well, if it doesn't hook me straight away, to be honest, I probably won't bother. And I've already paid $17 to buy it from our jeans. Because I assume that I will love the first 10 minutes. I assume, and I nearly always assume, right? On to the podcast, play. Actually, you know what, I'm gonna skip the first 15 at 20 minutes of the podcast. Listen to this, just this little patch here.

And yeah, after that we'll get into the movie that I believe will be my favorite of all time at least, you know, the first 10 minutes of which here we go and no! And scene that was beautiful. Good job. Wow. So he's getting local police to lock him up. They gave Jared Letter an Academy Award, but that was something else. In many of these challenge escapes, he was first stripped nude and searched. He's like, guys, this was not part of the deal. Guys. In Moscow, he escaped from a Siberian prison to transport van Claiming that had he been unable to free himself He would have had to travel to Siberia where the only key was kept but I come out

It's a big loan in Cologne he sued a police officer Werner graph who alleged that he made his escapes via bribery Who denny won the case when he opened the judge's safe. He later said that the judge had forgotten to lock it, but he like broke into the judge's safe to be like, see? See? I can break into shit. How lucky. And the judge had just forgotten to lock it.

Very good. But his live shows would be pretty bad if he was just using bribery to get out of it. Yeah, it would be... Unconvincing to watch. Locked my hands behind my back and then you just seen Whisper into someone's ear and sort of throw cash at someone. And I'm free!

Yay! And people just do this so confused. They're like, what just happened? So, things are going pretty well for Harry. With his newfound wealth, who Danny Pertsch purchased address, said to have been made for Queen Victoria. He then arranged a grand reception where he presented his mother in the dress to all of their relatives. So we had Trick? Look, Mum's as old as the Queen.

Who Danny said it was the happy-stay- For my next trick. Mum in a dress. Who Denny said it was the happy stay? For my next trick. Mom in a dress. No. Hahaha. We've all had.

All right. I was saying her in dresses before. I mean, it's a nice dress. Well done, Harry. Harry's wife is a nice lady. What happened to Eric? In 1994, who Denny returned to the US and purchased a house for $25,000? Equivalent now, about for $25,000?

Equivalent now about $666,000? My mum will now wear the dress. I mean, house. How much is it worth in today's money? 600,000? Wouldn't get much in Melbourne these days. Wouldn't get much in Melbourne. Now, whilst it was on tour in Europe in 1902, Houdini visited Bloice with the aim of meeting the widow of a meal Houdin, the son of John Eugene Robert Houdin for an

interview. So it's the son of his idol and his namesake, the widow of the son of his idol. Very confusing. A man she'd never even met. So he wanted an interview and permission to visit his grave. He did not receive permission but he still visited the grave. A sick permission. Just go for it. Who do you not believe that he'd been treated unfairly and laterally a negative account of the incident in his magazine? Oh claiming claiming... It ain't weekly. Ironically, it comes out monthly. Claiming he was treated most discuriously.

Also, in 1906, he sent a letter to the French magazine, L'Ouziniste. It's like Illusionist, but with an L. Oh, the Illusionist. Yeah. Fed of it. No, I've not. L'O Lillusionist my French is a very good We

But more so that I could understand it. Thank you. Yeah, I'll try to learn this one What did you just say? She's Well, what she said was actually gibberish to me, so I do speak French very well. I'll book more. Oh, book. So he wrote a letter to the French magazine that I mentioned earlier. And he said, you will certainly enjoy the article on Robert Houdin.

I'm about to publish in my magazine. Yes, my dear friend, I think I can finally demolish your idol who has so long been placed on a pedestal that he did not deserve. He's just got on a rampage because hot and he's demolishing whose idol this is Robert Sun of his idol no No, it's now he's taking down his idol wait who Dean is taking down the idol It's weird, but I would just find that kind of funny. So and is he saying that everyone else has put this guy in a pedestal or a heat or

who denny himself as a quick? He's like, you guys are bloody put this guy in a pedestal, but I see right through him. He's like, I named myself after him. I think most people are like, I've never heard of that guy. Who's that? You fools. So weird. He and them.

I'll take him down. Finally, who? Who did? Who did what? I just don't understand. Ooh, Dean. In the In-N-E. Also, the illusionist is publishing a letter that's he's claiming how good his article is going to be

in another magazine. That's in that now. You're right into the Harold Sun being like, check out the age next week. It's gonna be real good. It's like what? Okay. Thanks, man. Thanks.

In 1986, Higiti created his own publication, The Condra is Monthly Magazine. It was a competitor to... Which ironically was weekly. Ha ha ha. Is that ironic? It was a competitor to The Sphinx which was an independent magazine for Magicians and the Sphinx was a magic related US periodical. It was published for 50 years. It started in 1902. Which ironically it didn't come out

periodically. Missed leadingly I think is what you mean. But he's the thing. The Contra is Monthly Magazine. That's all right. It's all right, even. Yeah, no, it is. Please go on. So who do you need magazine? No, let's argue about this dumb thing. Sorry, Jess. Who do you need magazine?

The ironic one. We're shortly. And only two volumes released over two years. It's called the Condra is Monthly magazine. You didn't want in a year. There it is, that's all I know! I was trying to get things you fucks! Well the only there is that I jumped the gas. Oh God I didn't know anymore. To eat it. Wow.

There's a magic historian by the name of Jim Steinmeier and he noted that who Danny couldn't resist using the journal for his own crusades attacking his rivals, praising his own appearances and subtly rewriting history to favor his view of magic. And taken down his own idols. But then he still only wrote two. So it's like he didn't really do that much did ya? Anyway I thought I would talk about some of his famous escapes. I love you too. He's had quite an amazing career actually. He's done lots of different things, but there's a few escapes that I want to talk about.

They're so fucked and cool. Okay, ready? Yes. From Montenegro Simmon and throughout the 1910s, who Danny performed with great success in the United States. He freed himself from jails, handcuffs, chains, ropes and straight jackets, often while hanging from a rope in sight of street audiences. Because of imitators who Danny put his handcuff act behind him on January 25, 1908,

and began escaping from other traps. He put his handcuff act behind him and then escape from him. Hahaha. Around 1912, the vast number of imitators prompted Houdini to replace his milk can act with a Chinese water torture cell. So what he was doing was escaping from a giant milk can. This is the state's sense, so much higher, from a milk can to a Chinese water torture act. Yeah, correct.

So in this escape, Houdini's feet were locked in stocks and he was lowered upside down into a tank filled with water. The Mahoganyan metal cell featured a glass front so the audience could clearly see him. Um, and the stocks were locked at the top of the cell and a curtain concealed his escape. So they'd like, put him in and then put a curtain down and then they'd lift the curtain back up and he'd be like, ta-da! That's really fucking weird. Behind the curtain he's quietly riding a check for $100,000, so they let him out. Please let me out.

A waterproof check, obviously. This is my final offer. I don't know why I'm gritting my teeth but I am. Or, oh for God's sake, alright fine. 200 grand to let me live. So but the curtain comes down. I always imagine, because I can imagine this Chinese water torture cell thing. I think I've seen modern magicians do it. They're taken it. But do they always put the curtains? you can't see what they're doing?

No. No, but this is the 1910s. Right. We've advanced a little bit now, hopefully. I mean, we've got Facebook. So we've got, you know. But I suppose that if you saw him do it, maybe you know, gives away the trick. Yeah, exactly.

I think, and I read something later that I think they used to do it because it didn't look good, like him riding around trying to get out there. And I read something later that I think they used to do it because it didn't look good Like him riding around trying to get out there We're like oh it doesn't look that great But then his brother sort of realized later that people liked to watch how he actually did it So I think what they're actually thinking here is that You know that people will be going that's impossible And they just pull down the curtain put it back up. Oh is his life. It's yeah

I don't know maybe that's something to do with it because as soon as I see the curtain I start getting suspicious Totally I was like okay, so they just pull my rights back up. Yeah He's got a key No, yeah, we're not a key I'm trying to bulk cut his he smashes the glass Are you working way too hard for way too little there's never been a better time to consider a career in IT I'm home. evaluation. You could start your new career in months, not years. Take classes online or on campus, and financial aid is available to qualified students, including the GI Bill. Now is the time, mycomputercareer.edu.

Now, the original cell was built in England where Houdini first performed the escape for an audience of one person. As part of a one act play, he called Who Deany Upside Down. And the reason he did this, he put it on as a play, and he just performed it to one person, was so that he could copyright the effect and have grounds to sue imitators. That's actually very clever. It's very clever.

So he was like, oh, I did it in my play. He probably just made his wife sit there while he did it. And he's like, tada, I've done my play. Now I can copy right up. It's very clever. So he was like, oh, I did it in my play. He probably just made his wife sit there while he did it And he's like, today I've done my play. Now I can copy right up. It's very clever. You have to go to the effort of like printing a program. Oh Yeah, that's a higher theater. We had an interval. Yeah, there was a nasha Madam, can I show you to your seat? Any of the 6000 seats? That's luxury when you're one to one. I should have paid for on ratio. That is luxury. Absolutely. So who did he continue to perform this escape for the rest of his life all the way up until the 20s? It took him that long to get there. Yeah, he always breathes pages. Very impressive. All the rest of his life, which was about a minute thirty.

So that's the Chinese water torture cell. Now I move on to suspended straight jacket escape. One of who did his most popular publicity stunts was to have himself strap to a regulation straight jacket and suspended by his ankles from a tall building or a crime. Who did he would make his escapes in full view of the assembled crowd? In many cases, who did he drew tens of thousands of onlookers and brought city traffic to a halt? Like he just stopped traffic. He would sometimes ensure press coverage by performing the escape from the office building of a local newspaper.

That's smart. That's smart. In New York City, he performed the suspended straight jacket escape from a crane being used to build the New York subway. After flinging his body in the air, he escaped from the straight jacket. Starting from when he was hoisted up in the air by the crane to when the straight jacket was completely off, it took him two minutes and thirty-seven seconds. Great, but when he gets out of the jacket, does he fall to his death? No, he's still strapped by the truck. At a free-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- And a free- AHHHHH Fuck! The real cool part of Benetricks

Did you think the strait- I think he's including his ankles? Oh yeah, sorry, I'm just imagining that Yep, fair call I can, I'm imagining it right now Yeah, you got to- It was not before Were you imagining that the strait-jacket was suspended?

He was in it And once he's free from the jacket, he just- It's pretty much like watching someone jump out of an airplane and then try and take their parachute off Sure I'm free! Oh dear Oh, what am I done? Free in this restrictive parachute watching someone jump out of an airplane and then try and take their parachute off. I'm free! Oh dear. Oh what am I done?

Free this restrictive parachute. So two minutes there's something to say. Now I can dance. Oh boy, you're dancing. Yeah. How, what would be your preferred dance style to die? To die too. Yeah.

Or a conga I'm taking you with me. Well played. Well played. Well played with me well played yeah not me um Lindy Hoppe for me American I'd you'd square dance don't you yourself Charleston yeah boom boom boom boom boom you can't you can't take what you don't know what it is okay yeah well it's hoping to get lessons on the way down. For the listener Matt Nail, the Charleston. Yeah, it did real good.

Okay. Hugh Jackman's also there and I thought he could, as he fell, he could teach me. I should have met him at a Charleston. Oh, Hugh would know. Of course. Hugh would know. Hugh would know. Hugh just knows. He gets it. He does.

I love him. Yeah. Ah. Two minutes thirty seven though, he's very quick to get it. Two minutes thirty seven, that's quite fast, yeah. That's quite I love him. Yeah. Ah. Two minutes 37 though, he's very quick to get it. Two minutes 37, that's quite fast, yeah. Upside down. Another one of who Dini's most famous puzzle city stones was to escape from a crate that had been nailed shut after it had been lowered into water.

He first performed the escape in New York's East River on July 7, 1912. Police forbade him from using one of the pierce so he hired a tugboat, and invited press on board. Who, then, he was locked in handcuffs and leg ions, then nailed into the crate, which was roped and weighed down with 200 pounds of lead. The crate was then lowered into the water. He escaped in 57 seconds. What? The crate was pulled to the service and found still to be intact, but he got out in 57 seconds. The how's that happening?

Just you know? Dave, that's, I don't know. That's crazy. That is crazy. Not insane. Or magic. Or both. Yeah, was it, he was saying he was an illusionist, like he wasn't saying he was a magic man

or is he? That's it, yeah. So other acts around the time were sort of publicized the fact that they had like powers or were spiritually guided where he sort of said the opposite. He's pretty skeptical, right? Yeah, yeah. So, but at the same time, a lot of his acts kind of promoted, like he would get out using teleportation.

That's sort of thing and it's like, yeah right. But yeah, he never really claimed to be, he wasn't like, I'm magical. Yeah, but a magical person would want to say what he was doing exactly. He probably was magic. He's the only one saying he's not magic. Maybe he's just humble. Maybe you two could learn on thing or two. I am magic. As if I could learn anything about humbleness. I'm the best at everything.

I'm the most humble person. I couldn't be more humble. I'm the second best humblest. The second best humble. I can't argue with you there. Who Dini performed at least three variations on a buried alive stunt during his career? I hope you didn't have to go through the arsehole. He's a mess at all right. They had to put the plastic underwear on him and everything. Oh, for the sea-pitch. Oh, they had to pack him tight. All right. Now check out the cremation episode if you haven't. Otherwise, that makes sense. So the first

time he did this was in California in 1915, and it almost cost Houdini his life. He was buried without a casket in a pit of earth six feet deep. Six feet of earth. He became exhausted and panicked while trying to stop funny. He's a little bit earth. He became exhausted and panicked while trying to stop funny. He's all over funny. He became exhausted and panicked while trying to dig his way to the surface and called for help. When his hand finally broke the surface, surface. He fell unconscious and had to be pulled from the grave by his assistance. Who did he wrote in his diary that the escape was very dangerous and that the weight of the earth is killing. Oh how creepy.

I knew that was funny. No, I just don't know that he got all the earth is killing. Oh, how creepy is that? I knew that was funny. No, I just don't know that he got all the panic. I also... He was sick fucking. I don't know. You know, because of my head, it was kind of like, you know when you're packing, it's like when there's a kid holding onto some sort of floaty device and they're like,

ah, I'm drowning, I'm drowning ah I'm drowning I'm drowning I'm drowning and then their mum shows them they can just stand up in the water that's kind of what was happening in my head and he's like ah ah they're like you're out you're already out what are you you know that was that was not the case in real life and therefore it's not actually funny oh that was for I also love the discovery let being buried under six tons of earth that That could kill you! Guys! Guys, that was very dangerous. Why would you let me do that? That was really silly! Okay, mate. I shouldn't have done that! Of course! One of his skills must be just having a great lung capacity, right?

All these things mean that he must have... Yeah, he must be at Holted's press back three minutes or something. Well, actually, the second variation of this buried alive escape that he did was an endurance test designed to expose mystical Egyptian performer, Ram and Bay, who would claim to use supernatural powers to remain in a sealed casket for an hour. So Houdini was like, you're not supernatural, I can do that. So Houdini- So he's a fun spoiler yeah he's super fun but if I saw someone say you can't do that I mean I can do that too I would just say yeah you're both magical yeah yeah spiritual as well yeah great there's now there's two of you okay but he's gone and I'm

not spiritual now I think yeah yeah yeah the other guy's like great you can do it we we're both from the same from the same religion, I guess. Yeah, for some reason he wants to renounce us, and he's, but he's, yeah, him and me, a brother's from the same God guy. Brothers from the same God guy. Yeah. To paraphrase.

It was a 19, it was 19, there's a different time. Language was very efficient back then. So who did he wanted to beat Bay? He said, Bay, that's good. And on August 5th, 1926, he remained in a sealed casket or coffin, submerged in a swimming pool of New York's hotel shelter for one and a half hours. Hotel Shelton. So he's in a shed?

Is that where Trump'd? I believe so, yes. Where Trump was born, was what you were going to say. He was born in Hotel Shelter in New York. So he claimed he did not use any trickery or supernatural powers to accomplish this fate, which is what someone's supernatural wouldn't want you to think. And he just used controlled breathing. That's what he said. Just breathing. No big deal. Not that hard as a bay. Okay, this is my absolute favorite, my absolute favorite of his escapes.

So this was just in a quick passing sentence when I was doing a quick read of Wikipedia. It just said, and one time he escaped from the stomach of a whale. Anyway, and I was like, sorry, what? So I did a lot more research, and I found that in Boston's BF Keith's Theatre in 1911, Houdini took on one of his most famous and bizarre challenges. The Freak Sea Monster was news in New England even before Houdini became involved. The carcass had either washed up on the shore or was called by a local fisherman, The freak sea monster was news in New England even before Houdini became involved. The carcass had either washed up on the shore or was caught by a local fisherman, depending on the newspaper account.

So some giant sea creature has washed up on the shore. The press claimed it weighed 1,500 pounds and was estimated to be about 500 years old. Wow. Papers struggled to describe it. One called it a turtle tortoise fish or whatever it is to quote. Hey, it's quality journalism. Turtle tortoise fish. That's what they taught me in journalism school. Like if you don't know what what animal it is, no, we're gonna just make a few guesses. Oh, whatever. Whatever it is. That covers you. just make a few guesses. Oh whatever. Oh whatever it is. That covers you.

Quite genuinely, the press simply dubbed it the what is it? So they're all calling it the what is it? So good. What it is is still a mystery today. Who Dini called it a mungrel breed of whale and octopus? What? Others suggested that it could have been an elephant seal or a narwhale. An author called Patrick Collatin in Houdini the key says it was actually a giant leatherback turtle. From the existing photo it does appear to look

a bit more like a turtle. So there is a photo of it? Like a very poor quality photo. It's just is some giant sea creature. Right? Now, Houdini was playing the BFK Theatre in Boston when the What Is It was discovered, and soon it was announced that 10 prominent Boston businessmen had devised a challenge in which Houdini would be shackled in extra strong handcuffs and leg ions from police headquarters

and sewn up inside the belly of the beast. Wait, it really was a different time. A different time. They saw an opportunity. Yeah, they're like- Another Suramunster. They saw an opportunity. So when they're like, this is an animal that no one's ever seen before.

We won't keep it, we won't like, you know, put it in a museum. What we'll do is we'll get a magic man and we'll so him inside it. That'll show him. Like stuff on a Christmas turkey. It's a to-duckin. The drama of the challenge was teased out for days. Newspapers reported that Houdini

concedes that it will be the most difficult test he has ever attempted. One paper noted that Houdini had received a telegram from his family in New York telling him not to enter the monster. Houdini's only condition was that he'd be provided ventilation inside the creature. In turn, he signed a waiver releasing the 10 challenges of any responsibility. So he's like, yeah, no, that's fine, you guys are off. Scott free, if something happens to me. On the day of the challenge, several thousand people lined the streets of Boston to watch the what is it carried through the streets. The journey took it from Long War to the Keith's stage entrance on Mason Street. Originally the

challenge was to have taken place in the evening performance but it was changed to the matinee because of certain conditions which have presented themselves which people now think that the carcass was not going to keep until the evening. Oh! This is quite warm. So gross. So we're like, we better do it in the mat, no show. Mmm.

Is the already sewed up in it? No. It's been there for six hours. Oh yeah. Show time. Hey, Danny was shackled, handed, foot and then climbed with much difficulty into the creature. Yeah, because it's not designed for you to climb into it. It must be cute. It must be cute.

If it is a tortoise, I've never seen a tortoise that big. No, but it's like whale size, it's enormous. Well, that's the thing, they don't know what it is, it's just this giant. To me, that is the biggest story here. What kind of animal is this? And I had to really dig to find information on this story. I'm like, no, no, no, this this should be all this is for his entire Wikipedia page one dodgy photo of it how much press was there quite a lot well thousands of people turned up the theater was packed theater was absolutely packed chock a block

I reckon it was feels like they've missed an opportunity here is it a possibility that this is the lockness Yes, it sounds more like it than anything I've ever heard No one bothered to check no one thought to check they didn't think like is it wearing a kil't Check it's killed check it's killed If it has one my bagpipe see if it wakes it up if it's real So the backpack for the monster waking up? No, we'll never know. Because they didn't fucking do it. That is, that's disappointing.

Anyway, where was silence at the time? Well, we're busy promoting magic. So he's... To be honest, I did promote magic for many thousands of years before silence came along. So he's climbed into the creature. Apparently he's sprinkled perfume where his head would lay. Smart. Oh, he would smell awful.

You know that mix here at high school when people would mix, like, Link's Africa with their B.O. After a gym class. Yeah, but like, that's not deodorant. What's deodorant, but it's not antiperspirant. Yeah, it's body spray.

It's not helping at all. He just, he just, he just, he just, he just, he just, It's not helping it. It just mixes in a couple of pretty awful things. Yeah don't worry I know what will cover this smell. Oh it's so good. Now I will lie inside of it. So the carcass was then laced up tightly and had chains run through steel eyelets three inches apart. It was then wrapped entirely with chains and concealed inside a curtain cabinet. I'm not sure what that means, but it was like concealed, right? After 15 minutes, who did he stepped forward? Greasy but grinning.

Oh, he just covered in his shirt. Oh, yeah. Could you get that as your tattoo, Jess? Greasy but grinning. Oh, thatuck! Could you get that as your tattoo, Jess? Greasy begrining. Oh, that works. Yeah. That's not bad. That's not bad.

Actually, we'll get matching ones. You get greasy. I'll get grini. Yeah, good. I'll get butt. That's not bad. Two teas. So, to be honest, did he escape through the poop?

No, this thing. Is that what they think? The same monster was then revealed to be still laced and chained exactly as it had been. So it makes no sense. That's the thing you always kind of like, tarar, I just popped out here, I'm teleporting. Magic man. Surely you could have just punched through it, right? But how do you sell it back up? Sell it back up, needle and thread. So you reckon he's got one minute of punching and 14 minutes of sewing. Yeah, he's got to get it right.

He's a craftman. He apparently, he asked for a window to be open so he could have some fresh air. What the audience didn't know was that Houdini had almost been suffocated by fumes from the arsenic used to be bomb the carcass. Glad you said arsenic. From the arsenic. He was from the arsenic. Oh, it's awful.

He really suffocated. Oh, from arsenic. Oh, carcass. That's what they used to in barbed the carcass. Arsenic. They packed that carcass good. So there you go. So those are some of his most famous.

That is awesome. That should be the most famous. I remember that. And I, all right. It's pretty incredible. And you know what? He's not dumb. He also branched out a little bit into film. In 1906, he started showing films of his outside escapes

as part of his Vordival Act. In Boston, he presented a short film called Who Diny Defeats Hackensmith. George Hackensmith was a famous wrestler of the day, but the nature of their contest is unknown as the film is lost. So, there's all the footage, but- I wonder what he beat him at.

Who do you need to- Oh, it's Chess. Who do you need to defeat Hacke and Schmidt at- I'm escaping, so off. So off. Just some uh, two on two basketball. Crochet. Love making.

Oh, beat him at love making. It's not a competition, a competition Jess oh it is the way I do it oh wow you keep score a little pat over to the side yeah one like boxing match like a pro boxing match is good each round each round round by round three judges one by unanimous verdict. Yeah, that's on how you guys do it. I'm not for quite a while. I am the opposite of undefeated, I'm defeated. I've never won a match. The grim game was who Deenie's first full-length movie, and the name of Dave's porn-touch film.

Because everyone's real sad in them. The grim game. Now, amongst the grim game. Ha ha ha ha ha. How do you play? No, okay. Invitational, aren't we? Ha ha ha ha.

So, grim game. His first full length movie. Apparently, it's repeated to be his best. But because of the flammable nature of nitrate films and the inherent chemical instability, only 10% of old silent movies exist. Film historians considered this film completely lost. One copy did exist hidden in the collection of a private collector,

only known to a tiny group of magicians that saw it. Dick Brooks and Dorothy Dietrich of the Houdini Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania, had seen it twice on the invitation of the collector. After many years of trying, they finally got him to agree to sell the film to Turner Classic movies, who restored the complete 71-minute film. The film, not seen by the general public, for 96 years, was shown by TCM on March 29th, 2015. It's awesome. How cool is that? It was a highlight of their Yearly four-day festival in Hollywood. It hadn't been seen for 96 years. That's amazing. I bet it sucked, but that is amazing. They should have held out four years for 100%. Yeah, I would have thought that would have pissed you right off. You know what? I didn't think of that and then you you brought it up, I said, now I'm real mad. It's funny, when you were saying it,

I was thinking that too much. Why don't we wait for more years? For more years. Why not wait for more years? Wow. And then Dave said it. And then we are. And then we are.

Now, we're having this conversation. That's all I'm pissed off again. Why is the museum in Scranton? Why not? The connection, that's where they do the, the office is set. Oh, I don't know if there's a connection or the office is in Pennsylvania as well. What a state. What else is in Pennsylvania? What else in Pennsylvania? The penguin.

You said as well. Pittsburgh. Sorry. Philly. Sorry. That's what you established. Okay. Let's fill it up. You're born and raised. Hey, yeah. Jeez, Louise.

No, I'm not good at math or geography. No pans. What am I good at? Cheese. No, I'm done. Well, apparently love making. Oh, yeah. Competitive.

You've won every man's. I win every time. Following you, Dies, two pictures did in Hollywood. He returned to New York and started... Hang on, I'm gonna stop you right there because a moment ago you said this film has considered his best and now you're telling us you only ever did two films. The other ones lost. Yeah. Wildly considered his best. The only film leases. Yeah well no he's about to do a couple more. Okay sorry sorry. But yeah he's like he's so great he tries things that he's like meh

I love him. He starts his own production company called the Houdini picture corporation. He produced and started two films The Man From Beyond and Haldane of the Secret Service they were both made a couple years apart. He also founded his own film. They were both made a couple of years ago. They were made a couple years apart. I'm sorry, I just want to put... They sound like James Bond, title, do you think? The man from Beyond is good, I like that one.

So he also founded his own film lab, business called the Film Development Corporation. Gampling on the new process for developing motion picture films. Who did his brother, Theodore, Dash, who we had before, left his own career as a magician and escape artist to run the company. Neither who Dean is acting careered nor FDC found success,

and he gave up on the movie business in 1923, complaining that the profits were two mega. Wow. He's the best. He's like, hmm, I make more money as an escape artist. He should hang around because movies are going to take off pretty soon. Yeah movies got pretty big, I reckon. They're a pretty big industry. Sorry for that hot take. Yeah mate, if you stuck around you would have been in Transformers 7 or something.

Easily. We'll never know. Fucked it! I fucked it. Okay, so that's the film side of his life now I'd like to talk about a different part of his of his life and his adventures as well that links back to maybe a more local local area. Is that a local to us? Oh just a bit of sizzle. A sizzle for a sentence it's coming up very shortly. Oh, it's a killer fact. I think I know it Do you oh

Double do you oh? Is it a misconception I double did Oh, it is a misconception oil. It's a disputed conception. Conception. Conception. Much like my own. The speed of misconsum.. people don't know. People don't know. Okay, in 1909, who did he become fascinated with aviation? That's right.

All right, I'm on the right track, so far. He purchased a French voice-in biplane for $5,000 and hired a full-time mechanic. That was my fact. So he had a full-time mechanic. He had a full-time mechanic. That was my fact. So he had a full-time mechanic. Not the other full-time mechanic. After crashing once, he made his first successful flight on November 26 in Hamburg, Germany. The following year, Houdini, two, at Australia. Really?

Did he come here? I did not know that. It's pretty cool. He brought along his plane. Welcome to the plane. Welcome to the plane. With the intention to be the first person to fly in Australia when was all right Yeah, is there anyone tried at this point? Well, that's where it gets contested

Right, so that's the fact that I know I've heard that he was the first person to ever fly a plane in Australia and Where are we in terms of right brothers remind me when were they who did right brothers again? One of you I think that was nine. That that was well he's like 1912 was the first one yeah so it's not it's still early-ish yeah so in 1910 he made three flights at diggers rest in Victoria I must have fun I can't be 1912 I must be wait that we're crap can't remember't remember. Do you remember anything, Dave? Let me and Jess. But he's Siv. Dave Siv won a key over here.

I had something here about a right plane. Yeah, here you go. Okay, here we go. I've got it. It was reported at the time that this was the first aerial flight in Australia and a century later some major news outlets still credit him with this feat. That's why you think that. That's why you would think that.

He's on brainwash by news call. Yeah. Fuck. Now, a guy called Harry Cobby wrote in Aircraft in 1938 that the first aeroplane flight in the Southern Hemisphere was made on December 9th, 1909 by Colin DeFrees, a Londoner at Victoria Park Racecourse in Sydney in a Wilberright aeroplane. So the year before Houdenia done it. Colin was a trained pilot having learnt to fly in France. By modern standards his flight time was minimal but in 1909 he accumulated enough to become an instructor. On his first flight he took off, maintained straight and level flight, albeit briefly, and landed quite safely. On the second flight he had a crash landing when he tried to retrieve his hat which had blown off.

The main reason I left that in there. He's like, that was a crash landing. Oh, my hat! Wow, that is just real nice hat. That's a very dangerous. Now Australian historians and the Aviation Historical Society of Australia give Colin to freeze credit as a first to make an airplane flight in Australia and in the Southern Hemisphere. However, aviation pioneer Richard P.S. is believed by many New Zealand historians to have undertaken his first flight as early as 1902, which would give him not only the Southern Hemisphere but world record.

That's before the Wright Brothers, yeah. But that's heavily disputed. But some, after it, because remember I said, I've, some reason I thought the Wright Brothers were from New Zealand. And then someone tweeted later, they're like, you're getting confused because of this New Zealander who, yeah, right. There's also this Brazilian dude that people claim beat them.

But to be honest, most people think it's the Wright Brothers. Yeah. But you, that's the popular consensus, I will say. And I'm sure that I'll be hearing from you Some American history. Some Brazilians. And like it's quite a popular conception as well that Houdini was the first person to fly to Australia.

So in a way you're right for thinking that too because people still believe that. Right, I was... It's still all fairly heavily contested. Yeah. After complaining he's Australian tour, Houdini put the plane into storage in England. He announced he'd use it to fly from city to city during his next musical tour, and even promised to leap from it handcuffed, but he'd never flew again. Sorry.

It sounds like it spells disaster. I know, but I think he used to just all talk and no action to be honest. Right, except for the time that he sort of was handcuffed underwater or inside of a mystery animal. Or buried alive. Oh, toy. He never performs. A couple other things he did. So during his career, he'd been explaining some of his tricks in books written for the magic

brotherhood in handcuffed secrets, which was published in 1909. He revealed how many locks and handcuffs could be opened with properly applied force, others with shoe strings. Other times he carried can still concealed lockpicks or keys. When tied down in ropes or straight jackets, he gained wiggle room by enlarging his shoulders and chests, moving his arms slightly away from his body. So he just sort of stretched it out. I mean they're all impressive except for concealed keys. Yeah, that one's made. Okay, good one.

Okay, you did it. Depends on where they were concealed. If it was like right down his throat or some of that, I find that pretty impressive still. But still cheating. Yeah, still definitely cheating. And that's it, they were like keys that he didn't know what kind of lock it would be. And he just had a key for every possible lock That's impressive. That's impressive. What if you had the key to the city?

Well, yes, I mean, that's a great feat. Did he just went out like a rugby Premiership or he saved a kid from a fire right? Okay, he got him for that even. She's a hero Yeah, but not a sporting one So what the only ones that matter to you. Well, they're the ones that seem to get the keys of the city usually. For most of his career, who did he was a headline acting board of ill. For many years, he was the highest paid performer in American board of ill. One of his most notable non-escape stage illusions was performed at the New York HIPPO DROM when he vanished a full grown

elephant from the stage. Wow. He had purchased this trick from the Magician Charles Morit. I love purchasing tricks. He bought a trick. Yeah. How good would it be if we could buy jokes? I think he cast. Yeah. People have rites all the time., good point. But I think they also, people do buy tricks. I caught an aeroplane, like in the story. Oh, next, with a magician go, when I was in America, and he was on his way, I just, when I was cleaning up my house, I found this diary that I was riding while I was traveling around America, and I wrote this thing about this magician I caught a plane with.

And he was on his way to a convention. He was like, yeah, they people buy tricks off each other there people go there show their tricks They'll invent a trick and then sell them. Why I wonder what the tricks were so it's like the secret of the trick That's why they're really protective of them. Wow The bigger the trick the more cash. That's amazing. I'd never sell it your tricks Anything That's why you're so bad at retail. I never sell anything Yeah, I was not good at my retail jobs. I've ever seen that show pen and teller fool us or fool me come around

Which one of this you know pen and teller the famous Las Vegas magic duo? Oh, sorry lay vague a duo. Oh, yes, yep. Pengellet and I can't remember a tell us first name. Anyway, yeah, they got a whole show where magicians come on and they sit in the audience. And if you can do a trick and they can't work out what you've done, you get a prize. And so what happens is, it's kind of frustrating for people at home because they do an amazing trick,

pen and tell them to walk up to them, whisper in their ear and most of the time they go, yeah, that's that's how I do it. And then I don't tell you. But they don't tell you at all. Can you be like, no, that's not how I do it. Yeah, but I can't remember if you, if you like, that's not how I do it. If you're contractually obligated to tell pen and tell you do it because otherwise it could be a sweet way for them to get new tricks that I'm going to pay.

Just write down how you did that, mate. And we'll see. see you guys next year. That does sound very frustrating. I don't want that show. I mean it's amazing. It's amazing to watch because I don't know how any of them is done. But yeah. Did they get tricked much or not?

I'll stumped. I can't remember a time I've ever seen them get tricked. Most of the time they go, that was amazing, really well done. But I'm pretty sure I know how you did it. And the person goes, oh shit what they're actually whispering is you better say yes I am. I am. We're the fucking ton dongs. You sit down on your knees you motherfucker. Yeah yeah yeah they got it. They're the best magician ever. If you look at that monitor over there, that's this actually vision of your mother tied up in the background wearing green victorious dress. For some reason, we're weed magicians. Tell us a weed.

Tell us what? Yeah, that's what happens. It's a great show. So check it out. Penetell a full ass or full me. I don't know if I wonder what's what happens. It's a great show. So check it out. Penetell a full ass or full made, can't remember. I don't know if I wonder what to watch that now. I just want to say a couple more things about, I might Harry Hoot Danny. I'm waiting for him to do something, because he hasn't done it. He's all talk.

He's all talking. All right. I'm a chatty man. He's all like all ideas, and I follow three. You know, a lot of this. Not a chatty man. He's all like all ideas and I follow three. You know, a lot of this, not a lot of this. Not a lot of you, that's the international time for a waiter handing out all derbs. Yeah, a lot of this, what's this,

an international symbol for, fucko? Chinwaggy. no, no, no, President of Martinke and Co. America's oldest magic company. The business is still operating today. It was founded in 1902 in the back room of Martinke's Magic Shop in New York. The society expanded under the leadership of Harry Houdini during his term as a national president, which was from 1917 to 1926. Houdini was Magic's greatest visionary. He sought to create a large, unified national network of professional amateur magicians. Wherever he traveled, he gave a lengthy formal address

to the local Magic Club. Local Magic Club. Gather around kids. He made some weird. It's like a funny club at the local Magic Club. He made speeches. He usually threw banquets for his members at his own expense. For most of 1916, while he was on tour, he'd been recruiting, again at his own expense.

He was recruiting local magic clubs to join the society in an effort to revitalise what he felt was a weak organisation. He persuaded groups in Buffalo, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Kansas all to join. This was the biggest movement ever in the history of magic. History of magic is a great phrase also. In places where no clubs existed, he rounded up individual magicians, introduced them to each other and urged them into the fold.

You come over here, you. But I don't even do magic. Yes, you do. I think you do, because what's this? Is that a coin behind your ear, mate? I don't get that, because your magic, mate. Okay. I mean. A magic.

So that's kind of cool. By the end of 1916, Magicians Clubs in San Francisco and other cities that Houdini had not visited were offering to become assemblies He'd created the richest and longest surviving organization of magicians in the world It now embraces almost 6,000 members and almost 300 assemblies worldwide If I'm right The Great War has broken out and is in is going on right now. He's wondering around recruiting magicians Yeah, Matt because the world still needs magic.

If anything, it needs it more now. Oh, yeah. OK. Yeah, no, it's just opposite. Yeah, I'm sorry. I just would, he'd be a real asset in your army, Eric. Do you think? He could, you know, disappear.

Like a zap.. Wow, I can't say that. I just thought he could be captured. Get away, maybe get shot. Oh, OK. Have you ever, did you ever use the phrase doer Houdini like leaving a party without saying goodbye? No. I said a ghost.

A ghost, my bomb. I was like, bomb. I wouldn't do any. Phantom. I've heard ghost. A ghost. I wouldn't who do. Phantom. I've heard all those. Oh, Phantom, I've heard. Yeah, Phantom. Never heard smoke bomb. But do you say who do you? Yeah, I've heard who do you. He did a body who do you? Yeah, but I mean, this was a different time when it was a different time. Who do you mean he was there? We were normally talking about the man himself. He did a hymn. That was one of these magic clubs being forced to meet other magicians. He loved it. So I was trying to bloody sign up for the war. No, no, no, no,

no, what you want to do is do some catrics. Alex is there. All right, I'm here. All right, I'm in. Okay, so just to finish up. On the afternoon of October 22nd, 1926, two McGill University students visited Houdini's dressing room. According to reports Houdini was looking through his mail when one of the students, J. Gordon Whitehead, asked Harry if he could indeed withstand any blow to the abdomen as the magician had previously proclaimed.

Harry responded that he could, if given time to brace himself. At which point, Whitehead hit O'Deeney four times in the abdomen. What the fuck? Under the impression that O'Deeney had indeed braced himself. Why are these people in these dressing rooms? I don't know. Throughout, yeah. That's, that's mean. It is mean. What a meanie. What a meanie, po. What head? This isn't how he does, is it? Throughout the evening.

I'm so sorry, Matt. Oh my god, is this how we do it? Throughout the evening. Who did he perform in great pain? He was unable to sleep and remained in constant pain for the next two days, though he did not seek medical help. When he finally saw a doctor, Harry was found to have a fever of 102 degrees in acute appendicitis. He was advised to go to the hospital for immediate surgery a doctor, Harry was found to have a fever of 102 degrees in acute appendicitis. He was advised to go to the hospital for immediate surgery. However, Harry had decided to complete his show as planned that night.

The show must go on. When Houdini arrived at the theatre in Detroit, Michigan on October 24, 1926. Rock City. Two days later. For what would be his last performance. He had a... Because he retired. He had a fever of 104 degrees Fahrenheit, so 40 degrees Celsius. That's fucked up. That's way too hot. That's way too hot. Despite the diagnosis, Harry took to the stage. He was reported to have passed out during the show but was revived

and continued. He finished the show. He finished the show because he's a fucking professional. If he passes out at the wrong point, you know, say underwater or something, that's no good. I'd say that's pretty unprofessional. Yeah, unprofessional what I was thinking too. No good. It's dangerous for him and those around him. When the curtain closed Harry collapsed where he was standing and had to be carried back to his dressing room. He continued to refuse medical care until the next morning when best insistety go to the hospital. Harry relanding and had to be carried back to his dressing room. He continued to refuse medical care until the next morning when best insistent he go to the hospital. Harry relented and had his appendix removed, however it had already ruptured and doctors did not have much hope for his survival. On the 31st of October 1926, Serena by his wife and brother, Harry Houdini died. Sorry to end on a downer, but it also reports say that like he's

Punches in the stomach aren't gonna cause appendicitis. But four of them are No, so how's that gonna cause appendicitis? So I don't know already had appendicitis. All right. There's nothing done anything with it Maybe hadn't noticed until he'd been punched. Yeah, right. Oh, I was so many because I've heard that story before I thought was the guy punched him so hard that the appendix rubbed it or something That's one theory, but others say that he probably was already probably already had appendicitis. So if he'd already had it and had left it even longer therefore, like because appendicitis needs to be treated fairly quickly otherwise it can be really dangerous. So this guy was doing him a

favor by punching in the stomach for too long. Yeah, he just should have gone to the hospital sooner. Hmm. Right, and did that guy get in trouble? Like, we know who he is. And... Should we go to his house? Yeah, how do we know who he is? Did he talk?

What did Houdini write it in a book? I know what's funny. I did read about it, but I can't actually remember if there was any repercussions for that guy. So as you could have just told his wife, oh, I'm filling, don't worry about it. No, I'm not. My stomach's sore, but that's because some fucking college kid has punched me for too long. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, wife, oh, I'm feeling, don't worry about it. My stomach's sore, but that's because some fucking college kid is punch me for. No, but yeah, no, I think he's.

I mean, he asked if I could. I said yes, give me a sec. He did not give me a sec. He's lost going, yep, yep, yep. Look, I just asked how your day was, man, I didn't ask your left story. Spare me. You get punched by college kids every day.

Yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but yeah. Is that why the guy on the Simpson's episode where they had Lola Pulusa? He got home, not the guy, home, home. Home would be that guy. He's taking the cannonball. He's taking the cannonball to his chest, yeah. Is that why?

Was that based on who Danny? Not it, not it. You could take large blows to the chest. Did he used to get smashed in the chest or something? Yeah. No, I think it's just impressive that a man to the chest. It used to get smashed in the chest or something. No, no. No, I think it's just impressive that a man gets hit by a cannonball. That is impressive. Is that person?

Anyway, that's... I don't know if anyone ever has, but if they have... I don't want to know. The manager of Lollable who takes him to the finest vet. Rather than a doctor. That is very good. See, that is my report on Harry Houdini. That was an incredible report. Very good report. Thank you. That is very good. So yeah, that is my report on Harry Houdini.

That was an incredible report. Very good report. Thank you. You're in a bit of a phase of doing some, doing some old-timey entertainers. Yeah. You did Chaplin a little while ago? I was also thinking Chaplin throughout that.

And it's funny we've done a few around that, era, lately. Right, brothers, Chaplin. True, yeah, it just sort of happens, I guess by coincidence, isn't it? Hmm, that is fun. And I would like to say that I'm more of a fan of Houdini at the end of that episode than I was chaplain at the time. I was totally waiting for the cha- I think of them similarly for some reason, because they're both, you know, they both look black and white and whatever. Yeah, and I suppose, and you know, well they both started on like circuits like that,

for all of all, just chaplain became like a Hollywood started on like circuits like that, Vort Vort Vort Vort Vort Vort Vort And your name means leaving a party without saying goodbye. You know you've made it. I can name two magicians, one's David Cobbfield and the other's Harry Hood team. What about Zinc Frieden Roy? Okay, and also Penn and Teller, who I've mentioned earlier. But the two most famous ones in history. What about Dynamo? He's good. Oh, he lost me. What about Constantino?

Oh, is that who you were thinking when he said Dynamo? No, Dynamo is also one. They're two different people. Really? Yeah, dynamo is also one. They're two different people. Really? Yeah, dynamo is pretty cool. Anyway. Oh, David Blaine, I know that one too. You know that guy?

Yeah, I've heard of an English guy in a box above London, above the Thames or something. Anyway. Anyway, but I would say that who denies the most famous of all time. Yeah, absolutely. So yeah, that's my report. That was a really, really good stuff, Jess.

Thank you. Did you say who suggested that one? Yeah, Brett. I yeah, that's my report. That was a really, really good stuff, Jess. Thank you. Did you say who suggested that one? Yeah, Brett. I think you suggested Brett. Oh, yes, pardon me. I've had so much information for my ears, and I appreciate it. I'm only the one suggestion as well.

Yeah, because you think these iconic people like Charlie Chaplin had a few. Yeah. That just Brett, that looks it. Well, we'd like to thank Brett. We'd also like to thank some people that support this show through Patreon or everyone that supports the show over at patreon.com slash do go on pod. We totally appreciate any little thing that you can chip into the show.

If you listen every week and you feel like you want to give back to the show somehow, you can do that. And we give back to you again with the rewards throughout the show, including bonus episodes, updates, and also a shout-out on the show. We'd like to thank a few people now. Jess, would you like to do the honors and kick us off this way? I would absolutely love to. Thank you. Matt's looking a bit annoyed. He's always annoyed. No worry, he'll find a way to interrupt me. Yeah, Jess, don't worry, I'm gonna mute. I already did. You hardly got a word out, no, I already interrupted you with a hand gesture. I was gonna say I'm gonna mute Matt's mic, but he's still just gonna gestress you.

He can always gestress me. Bloody hell, just getting the favoritism again. Here we go. The first one that I would like to thank is for my favorite city in the whole wide world. Ooh, wonder where this is gonna end. And he gets this thing. We've talked about this, haven't we? Oh, actually, I know, I think I know.

Is it the home of the Dancer Rivers? Correct! Dublin. Dublin. Dublin. Dublin. Yeah, it is Dublin, and I would really like to thank a good friend of ours and supporter of the show. Jordan Walsh could have been a more classically Irish name.

So a Walsh is a good name. That's, but anyway, I mean, it's still really appreciated. Good on you, Jordan Walsh. Thank you so much. Not a Walsh. And what, anyway, I mean, I still really appreciate it. Good only Jordan Walsh. Thank you so much. You know what? You know what? Well, I'm here as well.

He sounds like he's probably rich. You know what I reckon? Jordan Walsh? Yeah. That is very wealthy. Let's guess everyone's net worth. Okay. Jordan Walsh, 12 million pounds.

Pounds. Pounds, yeah. Even though he lives in Dublin Dublin where they have the euro Yeah, but I'm gonna put it to his neighboring country as I will for everyone every country. I'll convert to a neighboring country So it's just how I work. Okay, well, I can only Dave needs the guests to be honest Yeah, also say around a number. Well, okay. Well, I would also like to thank A Canadian friend of ours. Okay, you're jumping all over the bloody earth. I'm all over the place.

From Ontario. Oh, Ontario. Alfred. Drew. Shouga. Oh my god, right. Drew Shouga. If that is so good.

If you weren't born with that, congratulations on creating at the best name I've ever heard. Drew Shoo, you did it. Drew Shoo. Net worth? $11 million US. $11 million, okay, not bad. That's a little less than Jordan.

Still a fine amount of money, you know? Oh, I'm not complaining about $11 million US. Yeah, you did really well. Hopefully my guys are as rich I'd love to thank a couple if if not rich money wise. I certainly rich name wise. How's this goes then? Johnny Dawson from last this year Johnny Dawson It sounds like he's in a sick rock and roll band or he jumps over

Reveans on his motorbike or something. Yeah, Johnny Dawson. Oh My god, I'm swimming. Me too. And you should, because he's got a net worth of 330 million Swiss francs. Whoa. Which actually, that's actually worth that so much. A lot of money.

That's so much. Yeah, Johnny Dawson. So I think, yeah, Leicestershire she I'm pretty sure it's less to she Lest is the one to the underdogs who won the APL last year, right? Oh, yeah, let's the city. Let's the city the Name the wolves. I'd also love to think a lander London Gura V. Kumar, which is another sick name. Very good name. Guraav Kumar.

Guraav Kumar from London. I'm from London. How much is? Oh, absolutely. Net worth. Processing? Like a... London, and that's where Arsenal are from from London.

And I'm pretty sure they won the FA Cup. So we had a couple of things. What a silverware. What a silverware. What a silverware. Speaking of silverware, net worth 850,000 Icelandic Corona Could be anything Wow, I'm pretty sure that's not very much at all

I'm confidence more than what I got yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah He's doing well. I'm just saying he's just not on the scale of a Jordan. Sure. And he's also very name rich. Grave. Grave. That's a great name. That's a good name.

Well, I'd like to stay in GBVI could. Yes, please do. From Lancashire. You got to use. What he facts about Lancashire? No, I think they've got it. I think they've got a county, a cricket team in the county. And the Lancashire Lads. Well, speaking of the Lancashire? No, I think they've got a, I think they've got a county, a cricket team in the county. A county cricket team.

Well, speaking of Charlie Chaplin's post dancing. Oh, clog dancing. There's strong on the clogs. It was the Lancashire Lads and speaking of cricket, shares his name with the extremely complicated method when they work out when it's raining. He is Ben Duckworth.

Wow. I wonder if he's actually related to the Duckworth, to the great man himself. Maybe he is the great man himself. I hope you are Ben Duckworth. I reckon he is. And he was, I always thought Duckworth was probably the stronger in the Duckworth Lewis, who I assume the Duckworth Lewis combo, unless it was just the one guy. Who I assume the duckless Lewis combo unless it was just the one guy net worth of 900,000 Rubles

Rubles where are rubles from Russia Russia? You call that your namebringers getting a little less neighboring to be honest. I know what the thing with GB is that they don't have any Yeah, well, I got the euro all around them, I guess Which you haven't used once yeah cuz he's creative. Yeah, I'm trying to the euro all around him, I guess. What you haven't used once. Yeah, because he's creative. Yeah, I'm trying to name checks and bloody currencies here, mate. And I would also thank you so much, Ben Duckworth. Appreciate all you work in the credit world.

Even if it is bloody confusing. Rubber. I'd also like to thank all the way. Get a big shake of the head from Jess. I'm trying to manufacture a nickname for Ducky and she's not enjoying it rubber yeah it's not good Ernie because it like like rubber Ducky Ernie but yeah Bob Bruducky anyway

I found a person to thank and saved the best for last if I'm at you all the way from from Illinois and the United States of America. I would like to thank Alex Pearson Alex Pearson net worth one million no one billion yeah, Mexican pesos Again, don't know Probably To me Alex Pearson sounds like an impressive like startup operator well Alex Pearson actually he

His name is Alex Pearson in brackets AKP studios right so he must have a startup. He's got his own business Okay, please look at what AKP studios is do this on your mind which collab Stupid old studios. Yeah are studios? Yeah, they're doing that. They have, look, we're all studios. Everyone's got a studio now. AKP Studios. Oh, there's a YouTube channel here for AKP. Oh my god, you're stalking one about... I'm always working hard on my Lego stop motion animation.

Oh, that's one. That's good. I like that a lot. He's got more subscribers than us. He's got nearly 4,000. Oh, go, Ellen. Have you known me on YouTube? He's on YouTube, yeah. I'm like, I'm,000. Oh, go, Alex. How do you know me? Oh, on YouTube, yeah. He's on YouTube, yeah.

I'm like, I'm pretty sure we are. No, we don't even know. No, not on the top. I'm like, he's very tight with that kind of information. Hmm. Oh, some good stuff here in AKP studios. Awesome, we'll go check him out. Check it out.

You can take him out of 4,000 subscribers, that'll be awesome. I think we'll put it out his link probably. And I'm going to have a look and see if his videos didn't suck first. But if they don't, then I'll tweet out his link probably and I'm gonna have a look and see if these videos end so fast but if they don't I don't know what I tweet at his link. Now with 4,000 subscribers I gotta be pretty damn good good on you Alex thanks so much and thanks to everyone that supports the show even just a little bit a buck or two per month if you think it's worth it that would be so good keep us going keep the engine oiled. Eating? Yeah. Keep Matt drinking the beers. Oh, he bloody woke up.

Bloody woke up. He's not a problem. He wasn't going towards beers always. Often it is food. What about the first two Patreon goals were a six pack of beer for Matt and a 24 pack, a slab of beer for Matt. Yeah.

Yeah, but from there we really branched out. And we're getting tattoos, which we got to talk about how we're gonna make that vote. I haven't hashed a vote for Bob, which on Fence starting to get out there on Twitter. So it looks like we will eclipse the total for... So what happens is everyone gets charged on the first of the month and we're coming up to the first of August. Sometimes people drop off a little bit, so we're hoping that we will eclipse that $2,000 total. I don't send me hoping that we don't, but I, you know, I mean. I'm hoping we do. I want to get a tattoo. And what do we do? It means either Matt or Jess via you guys voting will get a tattoo and we'll film it all. It's going to be so

much. We're doing it. We're doing it in 360. Yeah. You can watch me go on the other side of the camera. That sounds fun. Yeah, it'll be fun. That's so fun. So keep an eye on that, because it's going to be happening soon. Hopefully, the first of August, we will get over the $2,000 mark. But thanks everyone that does that.

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