I am going to be in Europe for Game 5 on and it’s killing me. Been out of the country for every NBA finals trip in my lifetime.

If i may ask, where are you going to be, Owen?

I just want to remind everyone that a year and a half ago, when you were all typing heart felt well wishes for Wemby and his probably fake blood clot, I said “I hope he dies.”

I’d settle for an abscessed tooth. That was enough to stop Secretariat once.

yeah dolan and his insane and well funded msg paranoia trip can’t understand why a mayor and it’s police force would wanna tone that stuff down…

I am going to be in Europe for Game 5 on and it’s killing me. Been out of the country for every NBA finals trip in my lifetime.

go ahead and give it to me…

Without him, the best American C for int’l basketball is likely, um… Chet Holmgren?

He was really quite a bit more likeable before someone (clearly) told him that he needed to develop an “edge.”

To me, he reeks of entitled brat. The coaches son who was always told he was the best, he is special, and the rules don’t apply to him, etc. He’s been protected since day 1 (even today!) and he has grown up in that world, so whenever that notion gets challenged — Wemby acts like it’s the other person’s fault for disrupting what he sees as the norm. Add that he never has to account for his bad acts, and Voila!

not to try to pry too much…I’ve just never known any magician people before…it’s kind of very interesting stuff…archaic, yet still fresh…

– do you need to practice a bunch, like musicians and athletes do

Magicians practice a shit-ton. I would say moreso than either of those two. We almost always have a deck of cards in our hands, or coins, strings, etc. We practice moves with credit cards when we go to pay something. We play with our rings. We always carry SOMETHING on us, because we will get the inevitable “Show me a trick” and you need to do something.

– do you practice not only on tricks but performance dialogue stuff also

Good magicians do. There are a lot of amateurs and people that just enjoying doing a card trick here and there. And there’s a lot of neuro-divergent people who just like knowing/learning magic but aren’t really performers. That’s all good & has been a part of magic since day 1. (One of the most prolific magic creators was a recluse who almost never performed publicly.)

But yes once you started getting good, patter (blocking, timing, jokes, etc.) start becoming much more critical.

okay, what i really wanna know:
– about how many tricks/illusions do you know

There’s a saying in magic. If you know 100 ways to find a card, but only one way to produce it, you only know 1 trick. But if you only know 1 way to find a card & 100 ways to produce it, you know 100 tricks.

– what age did you begin with this stuff

– do you still get nervous on stage

Less now. On stage I only feel nervous when my lines aren’t hitting and the audience isn’t reacting.

For gigs, I do feel nervous/anxious when I’m still learning the layout of the room, the people, etc. Doing walkaround is a whole ‘nother skill.