Name: Ep 565 - The Entertainer (feat. Steve Crawford)
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Ep 565 - The Entertainer (feat. Steve Crawford)

wow wow wes actor magician hypnotist escape artist television personality
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meet your needs hey guys welcome to matt and shane's secret podcast we're doing
a little road
episode i'm in ontario california recording a comedy special but we are we're
recording an intro
for my newest special that'll come out eventually and uh i met you steve steve
crawford dude great
to be here lifetime entertainer that was a crazy day we had well i mean yeah it
was mostly you you're
doing stunts and this guy don't let him fool you wow wow you got actually hurt
i got hurt um a little
bit injured your ribs are messed up well that should be nothing to you you're a
stunt how long you doing
stunts for exactly that's the problem so now i'm all broken down and soared so
i did a daredevil stunts
on the road for 30 40 years and that was uh for state fairs festivals how'd you
get into that
you know i was a kid uh i had a childhood hobby of magic my mother told me
about the movie houdini
with tony curtis and i watched this thing and i watched him get locked in the
water tank and his
appendix burst and he dies and but something it affected me differently than it
did the other
people watching and it grabbed me you watched the houdini so you saw him die in
the tank and you're like
i did i'm like oh my gosh i want to do what this guy's doing that is so cool
yeah i mean if you're
going to die let's die in a water tank in front of an audience you know we're
all going to die true
uh but didn't plan to die and didn't die but i i was lucky i had a locksmith
that lived next door
he taught me how to pick locks and i really became a big houdini fan uh your
name your stage name was
hosini right as a child i went all the way in those days actually all the way
to college uh houdini
names you know with a somebody eeny everybody eating so i went with hosini uh
can you my beautiful
assistant is here would you hold the microphone i'll i'll show you one of the
first tricks i learned
this is a quick one uh did you ever use mail is always women i never like sexy
boys for the assistant
i think you got to hold it closer somebody told me that all right here we go a
little dollar bill
trick here we go so a lot of kids start with this stuff which i did the library
picture of barbara
bush i don't know if you can see that or it kind of looks like barbara up there
i always thought as a
kid anyways i know we we fold the dollar up in this trick what we want to do is
make it come out
backwards or different or upside down but in this case it actually changes yeah
99 different you get
a hundred dollar bill so uh money didn't really become the motivation to do it
but it kept me doing
it you got that you got the philosopher's stone you could do alchemy transfer
the lead into gold we could
do that that's true uh i will say i picked up many many dates as a child
pretending to be a real wizard
and i could do real magic and read her mind and you wouldn't believe it is
magic is a great way to
meet girls don't they i was i wanted to ask you about that that seems i watched
the real
of you that was the oklahoma what was that the hockey team right oh you saw one
of my sports
events during illusions um yes my question is so when you're a magician because
you were you're a
magician actor stunt man you do it all you're a january you're a general
entertainer a real
entertainer everyone thinks they're an entertainer now but you were the real
deal uh 40 years of
locking in the what getting locked underwater acting you know it was a funny
thing when i when i was
growing up i was the only entertainer that i knew and i i mean i met people who
helped me in the
business but uh you know i did my shows and now i look at social media and
everybody's an entertainer
i'm like i'm the only one on they're not entertaining anymore it's in the world
the world has changed
everybody's entertained well here's here's the question so with with the magic
you're saying
it's a good way to meet girls when's the first time you converted magic skills
into just some
i don't i don't know how graphic you want to get so so often well i've got one
true story uh and it's
it's it's a no joke there's a victim's protection order on file in oklahoma
hold up bro on you or the
person the girl who had a fatal attraction and and it was it was it was this
that uh in 81 i opened for
alice cooper i was just his opening act we did some illusions and i was a good
guy uh backstage i met
with the people who won the radio passes to come backstage you know and
friendly and the band members
were sleeping with people and all that i didn't get any of that and one of the
rules i had how old are you
how old are you back uh that well i was very young i was 18 19 years old okay
uh that's crazy but yeah
i went to my earlier gigs uh back in college days i was in college when we
hooked up for that but uh i had
been meeting girls in clubs and telling them i was psychic so i felt bad about
that this even in high
school and would read their mind and of course it worked you know they're just
oh we got this
connection but i had a rule i would never go out with a girl that i met at a
show because what they
see in the show is not who you are i mean you're you're playing a role you're a
daredevil stunt guy
with security around you and i mean you're playing this image right or you're a
funny guy in a show
whatever it is uh so those people don't know you so and uh i made i broke the
rule one time
and boy it it was crazy uh uh young lady you can look up that's still in the
file court case but yeah
she uh tried to come on hard to me to marry me all of a sudden i'm like what in
the world we just met
you gave her one taste she lost her mind and exactly and i told her her words
to me were you know what
she said i should have killed you when i saw you at the state fair in september
i'm like what and she
grabbed the wheel of my little convertible it was icy out and crashed it and
then broke in my house
later stole stuff there were gas stoves but in those days i was a single guy
and turned on all the gas
blew out the pilot lights and uh and then and attacked me through the back door
so everybody
on our city block there went to court and we won and bro but i i learned my
lesson how many times you
pipe her down one time it just was it was once you got to taste the amazing
world and i i just don't
know uh i don't know what to say about it except you know i don't think it's a
good idea to co-mingle
you know that makes sense that's kind of smart you're that smart that young to
keep it separate
because that's kind of that's a good uh that's a good insight to know like dude
this is all glitz and
glam yeah yeah yeah yeah it's true and i learned the lesson so i i really
wanted to ask you about that
because doing the county fairs must have been crazy like what were some of the
stunts what was like the
craziest stunt you did at like a county fair you know everybody had a favorite
um and so i it state
fairs were primarily we had about 25 state fairs starting in september through
november west palm
springs florida kicks off early february and shreveport louisiana not my
favorite fair but that's
that was ran right into thanksgiving so there was a ton of fairs and uh so we
had ground acts family
shows animal circus kids circus ideas circus sideshow illusion so we had that
going that i book a
secondary act which was the daredevil stunts and one of those was locked upside
down in the water
torture cell that houdini inspired strapped to roller coaster tracks and a
straight jacket had to dive
out of the way right before it crashes through you know from a screen blood and
uh yeah hanging from
burning rope straight jackets in the air but there were other markets for
swimming pool events and let
people anybody with a backyard pool could hire me bring their padlocks and
chain me up to weights and
tell me the pool and for five if you had five thousand dollars i was available
to do it and uh some
close calls but we did never made it through that what was a close call well
there were a lot of close
calls uh i i wouldn't even know where to begin you know i don't know what it
was so what's here's the
question some accidents someone hired you at like their pool to escape and you
died in their pool
what's the deal with that i would sue myself so i had a two million dollar
liability policy
that if myself or anyone else was ever injured at one of my shows that it would
pay off so my first
step would be sue myself because i was injured at my show that's kind of my
plan anyway get rich off
so what were the babes like at the county fair because i know alice cooper
obviously probably
crowing but like the county fair what's that like well um exactly uh use your
imagination you know
and smaller the fair the smaller the town yeah i love small i'm from a small
town so um but people
are they you to be honest you know we joke about that and there was a lot of flirty
you know horror
types i guess you could say but there was a lot of very very sweet people and i
mean it sincerely
the uh my favorite guests they came every year every year just really good
people yeah that's
in this community that's cool because i always wonder about that because that's
like yeah you kept
it to the code that whole time you just only broke once for that one lady
absolutely you know i think
my fingers always practice with my fingers and you want to see a finger trick
you want to do something
um all right i'm lovely assistant i'm gonna have you lay your mic down you got
to do this one with me
would you hold this one so actually magicians we do use our hands to exercise a
little bit to get our
magic going if you do this with hold your hands like this clasp your fingers
together now wiggle your
first finger wiggle your little finger good you're very good talented yourself
okay now separate now we're
gonna go down now can you keep turning to the go all the way out it's a little
bit of stretch if
you're watching this or try it at home to get all the way out now reverse your
arms lock up like that
except kind of hold them up high there you go now wiggle the first finger and
the little angle yeah oh
linda blair taught me that one actually
what'd you do twist your arms around right oh i didn't do that i couldn't do
that i didn't either
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time would you come back
you're so good at this i love it um trip with a couple of jokers and uh hold on
we're missing one
we're used to uh standing standing up what kind of comedian sits down you're
lucky i told you i was
standing i have no problem standing so i've got a story how i lost some money
from a guy running a
little scam a little gambling game i've had a fair and uh it went like this i
thought being a magician
i'm going to win all these carnival games right yeah this guy has had three
cards at his game one of
those was a joker that he was using he had a second card and it was a joker and
then he had a third card
which was actually uh an ace he said this is the money 