June 24, 2024 • 8 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
With the John and Ben podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Cheers to Dilma making the world a bitter tea.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Having good to see you guys.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Yeah, I haven't seen you for a few years. Actually,
we had a TV show last time, and like Magic,
that disappeared.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
But then like Magic, you disappeared, but all of us.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah, So coming back to newsyeal ten shows around the
country November December at the end of the year. It's
kind of like your so your best tricks.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Ever, right, It's called Dyscenium.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
It's a celebration of my life in magic over the
last ten years. So it's ten effects in the show
ten tricks. It's only ten shows for you, guys, and
it's a decade ten years.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Excuse my uneducated ignorance. Is decinium? Does it represent ten
in some way?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Correct? Yeah, it's laden for ten.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
I should have paid.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I love your numbers, don't I do.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Like I saw something with you doing an interview I
think on the AM show, and you were talking about cards, correct,
and how they kind of the fight. Yeah, it was
really interesting, though I can't remember exactly what you see.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, that'd be great.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
There are fifty two different cards in a pack. The
cards originally made it as a calendar, and they represent
the fifty two weeks in a year. The four suits
represent the four seasons, black cards, red cards, night and day.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
As Auto had, the king is thirteen.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
You add them together three hundred and sixty five. So
when you pick a card, it's really I got married.
I was with my wife for eleven years. We got
married on the eleventh of the eleventh. Belie, this is
so numbers for me are a big deal.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Yeah. And do you make important life decisions based on numbers?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I do, Yes, Yeah, Lucky I walked past you, guys,
I felt like a good numbers that lot of come
in and do the interview.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You know, I die, but I do like numbers. Yeah,
but I don't base. I don't. I don't sit at
home and so well, we can't go ab out that day.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
You've had, you know, huge TV specials, you've traveled the world.
What sort of tracks can people expect to see?
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Like?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
What are we talking? When they went?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
And it's my favorite effects, my favorite tricks people appearing, disappearing, levitating, teleporting, crazy, death, defying, escape,
so knives dangling above my heads. People come up, they
examine everything, they check everything out, They make sure it's
all real. You can participate as much as you want,
or just sit and watch it observed. Because I'm the
kind of person who goes to show. I don't want
to get evolved. I don't want to be on stage
when I'm watching a show. Right, But other people you'd
(02:21):
be surprised you want to get up that way.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
But then if you have someone in an audience who's
like me, do you steer away from that? Yes, I
need to look the other way.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I'll be like, if you look the other way, then
i will select you. Just be normal, Just be normal.
Kids do that and then they get up on stage
and they freeze you.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Probably.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, seeing it in person, We've seen you do some
tricks before. It's amazing, and it's amazing seeing it with
your own eyes through TV. That where you kind of go.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
On TV, right, you go, that's an actor that's set
up crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And people ask me afterwards, they're like, tell us about
it to get pecked.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I'm like, no, it blew my min.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
It's better live.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yeah, you get to just sing it with your own eyes.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
It's very very powerful. It's much more potent. Magic needs
to be performed live.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
You seem levitating, right.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
People levitate, disappear, teleport, I walk through a steel plate.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
What's the most nervous you are before a track like
one trek in particular that you've done that, You've gone Jesus,
this could go wrong. I mean all the time. It
could go wrong.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
During the stunts, the underwater escapes. You've done a two
hour show. You're crazy, You're like energy ah, and then
all of a sudden, ive got to jump in a
tank and lower my heart rate, be calm. It's like,
how do you become after two hours of energizing the audience,
having to deal.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
With mean.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Stuff correct? And then you've got to lower everything down.
So that's really really challenging. So this is you.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
You would chain yourself up and go into a tank
and have to WOWE, that is a real gear change
for you. Have there been moments we've been in that tank,
locked up and you're like, has it ever gone a
little too long?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Did you know hospital after one?
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I got slashed by knife, I got toss stitches in
my chin, hit my head, my forehead, I got seven
in there. I blew my ear drum going underwater. I
cracked two ribs. I broke my ankle hanging outside down.
That's that was all in one week, so it sounds
like I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
The huge element of danger.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
It was the first trick because I think magic. He
got a book as a kid, right, it was the
first trick.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I made a coin vanish for my father, who's a
structural engine. You're thinking that's not impressive, right, all kids
make money disappears.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
That's not really. It was a trick and.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
The coin vanished, very simple slide of hands called the
French drop vanished. But my father hadn't seen magic, and
he said to me, how did you do it?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Now?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
As a kid? Can you imagine? To me?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
He was My father was this genius who made bridges
and buildings stand up using mathematics, and I managed to
baffle him for him And there's a huge amount of
power that happens as a kid who I was really
struggling with school or things were problematic. So I could
do something that nobody else could do. And that's where
the obsession began.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I started.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Yeah, well, were your family supportive of your career?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
In the beginning, because magic helped me to come out
of my shell and read and be better student at school.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
My mother was a school principal, so that was.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Very happy, and my father was happy because now I
was being a normal human and I was talking to
people and not being so shy. And then it becomes
a Dad, I really want to do this, and he's
like no, no, Now it starts to change a little bit.
Seventeen He's like, yeah, this was just a hobbit, correct,
I've got this engineering for a Mother was very encouraging,
(05:31):
father not so much.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And then so there was always this so I had
to prove myself, prove myself for myself.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
And I remember finishing high school, going to university for
a year, and then I said, I got this offer
to be on a cruise ship as a headliner, and
I said to my father, let me just give it
a shop for a year. I'll take a leave of
absence from my studies and I'll come back and I'm
still absent from the studies.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
That's amazing, that's cool, that's how it happened. That's how
good for you two.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
And then he backed it in the end, and then
they couldn't be more more more proud. Now my father, yeah,
he introduces me every to everybody.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
As you know, this is my son the magician.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Yeah, now you're going to do a bit of a
trick for us. Now is an audio trick or more
of a visual one.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
It's a visual cameras rolling you can describe and cameras
are rolling.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So we'll do it.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
But we are shocking at painting pictures with words. But
we'll give it out.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
But you can see it on social as well.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
We'll check it out. Yeah, ok I've got an iPhone
Yeah there as well. Okay, so what have we got.
We've got a packet of tick texts. Yeah, you can
have the real tic texts. Would you like one?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Okay, Megan offering.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I always feel like I'm going to screw up the
track somehow, but just him telling me I've got baby, Yeah,
maybe yeah, take one? Okay, yeah, yeah, real okay, real
tic texts.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Okay, in the mouth his mouth and on the end
of his tongue. Yeah, it looks like he's swallowing it.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
He's made.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Are you impressed? Yeah you didn't even sure it impressive.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, he's standing up now okay, breathing in through his nose.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
No, no gonna come.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
It's underneath his right now coming out, it's out, it's out.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Did he put me out of his eye? I can't
do eyes. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It's peppermint flavor and it has made your eye water.
I guess because it's minty fresh.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
You swallowed it and popped out of your your right eyeball.
Oh dig, that was horrific to what isn't that fun?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Wow, that's a mad press.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
You go along and see Costentino.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
You're incredible. Ten shows around the country November December this year.
You can get all the details that endeavor dot live
slash Costantino. So nice to see you again. Thank you
very much for wowing us once more.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
How many tic texts leading around your body you lasted
along the way
With the John and Ben podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Cheers to Dilma making the world a bitter tea.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Having good to see you guys.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Yeah, I haven't seen you for a few years. Actually,
we had a TV show last time, and like Magic,
that disappeared.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
But then like Magic, you disappeared, but all of us.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah, So coming back to newsyeal ten shows around the
country November December at the end of the year. It's
kind of like your so your best tricks.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Ever, right, It's called Dyscenium.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
It's a celebration of my life in magic over the
last ten years. So it's ten effects in the show
ten tricks. It's only ten shows for you, guys, and
it's a decade ten years.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Excuse my uneducated ignorance. Is decinium? Does it represent ten
in some way?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Correct? Yeah, it's laden for ten.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
I should have paid.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I love your numbers, don't I do.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Like I saw something with you doing an interview I
think on the AM show, and you were talking about cards, correct,
and how they kind of the fight. Yeah, it was
really interesting, though I can't remember exactly what you see.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, that'd be great.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
There are fifty two different cards in a pack. The
cards originally made it as a calendar, and they represent
the fifty two weeks in a year. The four suits
represent the four seasons, black cards, red cards, night and day.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
As Auto had, the king is thirteen.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
You add them together three hundred and sixty five. So
when you pick a card, it's really I got married.
I was with my wife for eleven years. We got
married on the eleventh of the eleventh. Belie, this is
so numbers for me are a big deal.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Yeah. And do you make important life decisions based on numbers?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I do, Yes, Yeah, Lucky I walked past you, guys,
I felt like a good numbers that lot of come
in and do the interview.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You know, I die, but I do like numbers. Yeah,
but I don't base. I don't. I don't sit at
home and so well, we can't go ab out that day.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
You've had, you know, huge TV specials, you've traveled the world.
What sort of tracks can people expect to see?
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Like?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
What are we talking? When they went?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
And it's my favorite effects, my favorite tricks people appearing, disappearing, levitating, teleporting, crazy, death, defying, escape,
so knives dangling above my heads. People come up, they
examine everything, they check everything out, They make sure it's
all real. You can participate as much as you want,
or just sit and watch it observed. Because I'm the
kind of person who goes to show. I don't want
to get evolved. I don't want to be on stage
when I'm watching a show. Right, But other people you'd
(02:21):
be surprised you want to get up that way.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
But then if you have someone in an audience who's
like me, do you steer away from that? Yes, I
need to look the other way.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I'll be like, if you look the other way, then
i will select you. Just be normal, Just be normal.
Kids do that and then they get up on stage
and they freeze you.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Probably.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, seeing it in person, We've seen you do some
tricks before. It's amazing, and it's amazing seeing it with
your own eyes through TV. That where you kind of go.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
On TV, right, you go, that's an actor that's set
up crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And people ask me afterwards, they're like, tell us about
it to get pecked.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I'm like, no, it blew my min.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
It's better live.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yeah, you get to just sing it with your own eyes.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
It's very very powerful. It's much more potent. Magic needs
to be performed live.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
You seem levitating, right.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
People levitate, disappear, teleport, I walk through a steel plate.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
What's the most nervous you are before a track like
one trek in particular that you've done that, You've gone Jesus,
this could go wrong. I mean all the time. It
could go wrong.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
During the stunts, the underwater escapes. You've done a two
hour show. You're crazy, You're like energy ah, and then
all of a sudden, ive got to jump in a
tank and lower my heart rate, be calm. It's like,
how do you become after two hours of energizing the audience,
having to deal.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
With mean.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Stuff correct? And then you've got to lower everything down.
So that's really really challenging. So this is you.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
You would chain yourself up and go into a tank
and have to WOWE, that is a real gear change
for you. Have there been moments we've been in that tank,
locked up and you're like, has it ever gone a
little too long?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Did you know hospital after one?
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I got slashed by knife, I got toss stitches in
my chin, hit my head, my forehead, I got seven
in there. I blew my ear drum going underwater. I
cracked two ribs. I broke my ankle hanging outside down.
That's that was all in one week, so it sounds
like I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
The huge element of danger.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
It was the first trick because I think magic. He
got a book as a kid, right, it was the
first trick.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I made a coin vanish for my father, who's a
structural engine. You're thinking that's not impressive, right, all kids
make money disappears.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
That's not really. It was a trick and.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
The coin vanished, very simple slide of hands called the
French drop vanished. But my father hadn't seen magic, and
he said to me, how did you do it?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Now?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
As a kid? Can you imagine? To me?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
He was My father was this genius who made bridges
and buildings stand up using mathematics, and I managed to
baffle him for him And there's a huge amount of
power that happens as a kid who I was really
struggling with school or things were problematic. So I could
do something that nobody else could do. And that's where
the obsession began.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I started.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Yeah, well, were your family supportive of your career?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
In the beginning, because magic helped me to come out
of my shell and read and be better student at school.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
My mother was a school principal, so that was.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Very happy, and my father was happy because now I
was being a normal human and I was talking to
people and not being so shy. And then it becomes
a Dad, I really want to do this, and he's
like no, no, Now it starts to change a little bit.
Seventeen He's like, yeah, this was just a hobbit, correct,
I've got this engineering for a Mother was very encouraging,
(05:31):
father not so much.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And then so there was always this so I had
to prove myself, prove myself for myself.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
And I remember finishing high school, going to university for
a year, and then I said, I got this offer
to be on a cruise ship as a headliner, and
I said to my father, let me just give it
a shop for a year. I'll take a leave of
absence from my studies and I'll come back and I'm
still absent from the studies.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
That's amazing, that's cool, that's how it happened. That's how
good for you two.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
And then he backed it in the end, and then
they couldn't be more more more proud. Now my father, yeah,
he introduces me every to everybody.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
As you know, this is my son the magician.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Yeah, now you're going to do a bit of a
trick for us. Now is an audio trick or more
of a visual one.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
It's a visual cameras rolling you can describe and cameras
are rolling.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So we'll do it.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
But we are shocking at painting pictures with words. But
we'll give it out.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
But you can see it on social as well.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
We'll check it out. Yeah, ok I've got an iPhone
Yeah there as well. Okay, so what have we got.
We've got a packet of tick texts. Yeah, you can
have the real tic texts. Would you like one?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Okay, Megan offering.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I always feel like I'm going to screw up the
track somehow, but just him telling me I've got baby, Yeah,
maybe yeah, take one? Okay, yeah, yeah, real okay, real
tic texts.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Okay, in the mouth his mouth and on the end
of his tongue. Yeah, it looks like he's swallowing it.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
He's made.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Are you impressed? Yeah you didn't even sure it impressive.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, he's standing up now okay, breathing in through his nose.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
No, no gonna come.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
It's underneath his right now coming out, it's out, it's out.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Did he put me out of his eye? I can't
do eyes. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It's peppermint flavor and it has made your eye water.
I guess because it's minty fresh.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
You swallowed it and popped out of your your right eyeball.
Oh dig, that was horrific to what isn't that fun?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Wow, that's a mad press.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
You go along and see Costentino.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
You're incredible. Ten shows around the country November December this year.
You can get all the details that endeavor dot live
slash Costantino. So nice to see you again. Thank you
very much for wowing us once more.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
How many tic texts leading around your body you lasted
along the way
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