Magician David Garrard previews the Bob Downs Invitational Golf Classic

Magician David Garrard previews the Bob Downs Invitational Golf Classic and his upcoming magic shows with Lance Burton and Kentucky Kingdom...

Episode Transcript

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All right, So you wanted totell me about the Bob Downs Invitational Golf
Classic, so you'll have to fillin the blanks for me. Yes,
sir, it's presented by Saint Matthew'sBaptist Church. My church. We've been
playing golf together for more than twentyyears, but we have partnered with Habitat
for Humanity of Greater Louisville for thepast twelve. You've actually been out there.
I don't know if you remember not. You came out and we're kind

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of a celebrity. Made a celebrityappearance one time. But did I hit
any balls straight? I don't know. I don't remember that. Sometimes sometimes
people have me come out and theyhave me like hit the shot on a
part three and if mine is good, the team gets to keep it and

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use it as as zero. Sothat means they're going to the green hopefully
and putting their first stroke, whichis that's We used to do that with
our pastor, but they never couldhit the green. So what we do
is we put our pastor on thegreen with about a He lines up about
a house name's Alan read it,and he sets up about a ten foot
makeable putt and if they're not insidethat they can they can play his ball

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and have a shot at a birdie. To do that, we're getting off
the ta going all over the place. Indeed, all right, when is
this event and where it is?Monday, September sixteenth. We tee off
at twelve thirty at Big Spring CountryClub and day raised over three hundred thousand
dollars and built twelve houses right herein Louisville. And so we feel pretty

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good, yeah about that. Andthe only way we're able to the players
pay to play, and that moneyjust pretty much pays for their golf.
But we have some great sponsors thatreally enable us to make our gift to
Habitat Park Community, louisll Paving,amyor priz Zack SBY's, Republic Bank,
Chick fil A, and something calledthe Magic of David Gerrard. Don't know

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what that is, but I heardthat guy's pretty good. Those people make
it happen. I tell you whatI'm really excited about this year, Terry.
We have an online auction and it'snot gonna be just for our players.
It's going to be for anybody andeverybody and includes a nice stay at
a condo and Cocoa Beach. Butthis is the cool thing. Four tickets
to see comedian Nate Bargatsi in twentytwenty five. And I love that guy.

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He's one of my wife's favorites.He is so cool and his dad
is one of my best friends inmagic and Stevens often performs with Nate,
so it's really it's just special,and you know, it just sells out.
He mentions that his dad was amagician, and he talks about it.

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I don't know. There's so manyfunny bets. The one about the
State Fair where his dad is like, you know, he's in a trying
to do a thing. But nextto it is the exhibit where they're going
to have a donkey jump off ahigh dive, and he says, does
anybody say, all right, isthis your card? And he goes nobody's
looking at the magician. They're alllooking at because they're not sure that donkey
was really interested in jumping off thehigh dive. That guy is funny.

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He is funny. Dad's funny too. But I'm just so proud of Nate.
I've never met him. But it'shard to get in. It's hard
to get a ticket. He keepsselling out everything, so we feel fortunate
that we have four tickets and they'llbe good. The twenty twenty five tours
not set yet, but once itcomes out, then you know, we're

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nice thing about online auction wherever youlive. We're not going to be able
to provide travel and lodging and oughtstuff, but we're gonna get you four
nice tickets and maybe a Griffin Grin. That's great. So anyway, hope
folks, will you know somebody wantsto play with us or help us?
It's at the website is Bob downsgolfdot com spelled just like it sounds,
Bobdownsgolf dot com. Okay, Andwhat's happening with your magic career? Well,

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I'm on a little break right now, but getting ready to got a
big show here with Lance Burton inSeptember September sixth it's called It's Magic,
and may want to try to getback on with you and with a show
producer to talk about it a littlebit, but that's next year. And
then gearing up for Pumpkins at KentuckyKingdom, which will be every weekend every
Thursday through Sunday at Kingdom in Octoberand we're also part of you thing that

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got going Christmas in Kentuck Kingdom.We're going to do twenty six dates with
them. Oh excellent for that,so excellent. Whatever you get Lance Burton
to come out and work again,and that man owned Las Vegas for the
longest time, and I like thathe comes out and works every now and
then. Well, you know,he's on tour with that Lance Burton and
Friends show, and not not alot, but some, but he's living

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down you know, he's back inKentucky and he's just so gracious with his
time and we're very excited that he'sgoing to headline our show and sort of
them see things for us. SoI think he's down in like a Dare
County, maybe Columbia, a DareCounty, Russellville, Russell Springs. I
get it mixed up, and gethim mixed up. What a what a
legend that guy is. That's awesome. He just amazingly talented and so free

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with Like he helped me this pastweek with something I was working on.
I called him and I bet hespent thirty minutes on the phone trying explain
something to me. So good dude, all right, David so we'll help
you. Send some folks to thiswebsite, bobdownsgolf dot com and it's a
golf tournament in September. But there'sa lot of great auction items available through

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that website. That's right the link, and everything's on the website. The
auction doesn't open until first it'll onlyrun for ten days, but it's all
there on the website. Okay,bro, great talking to you. Thank
you, Terry, take care.That's magician David Gerard back in a few
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