June 23, 2025 • 45 mins
Rich Manley Returns! Take a walk with me down Fascination Street, as I get to know even more about Rich Manley. This magician, illusionist, actor, and adventurer first appeared on the show 11-30-2020. This is where you find the story of his journey so far. In this episode, we chat about the upcoming SECOND season of his adventure show 'Culture Shock: Bridging Culture Through Magic', on TUBI TV. We also discuss being an illusionist, and some of his insane magic tricks. Then we talk about some of the adventures that he has had on his travels, including some of the weird stuff that he has been asked to eat in faraway lands! We do touch a tiny bit on a couple of his acting projects, where he worked with Barry Bostwick on one, and Michael Pare on another. We then get into his touring live show with Wiggle Room Entertainment, called 'Diary of Magic', and poke a bit of fun at his producer on that show. Finally, we talk about some of the cool things available on his website. One of which is that he has his own custom set of Bicycle brand playing cards! Pay special attention, because Rich and I have teamed up to give away FIVE decks of these exquisite sets! Follow him everywhere and make sure to tune into his adventures live and on TUBI.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, how are you cool, Cassy and Kittens. It's Carol
Baskin and you are listening to the Fascination Street.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
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You already know you wait for the Fascinating Street.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Welcome back, Street Walkers. This is a return appearance with
previous guests of the show, rich Manly Rich is an
actor and wait for it, an illusionist. That's right, he's
a magician. In this episode, we barely talk about his
acting career almost at all, because we're focusing on his
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illusionary adventures. Rich Many, the adventure, illusionist and Explorer has
a show on to B. It is called Culture Shock.
Season one came out a couple of years ago. There
are six episodes and it is some crazy, wild stuff.
They are currently filming the second season and you can
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expect that to come out probably towards the beginning of
next year. But in this episode we talk about some
of the places he's going to be going for season two.
We talk a little bit about how he got into
magic and some of his favorite illusions. We also talk
about his live stage show Diary of magic. He will
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be touring around the world, starting in the US and
then going to some of the more tropical destinations with
this show, So make sure you check out where those
are going to be and go see him in person
doing some really insane stuff. And also rich has designed
his own deck of playing cards. There's three different price
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points for these playing cards, and there is some illusions
included in one or two of these options. That said,
we do have a giveaway on this show. Pay attention
when we start talking about his playing cards, because we're
giving them away. That's right, Rich c Manly and I
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are teaming up to give away five decks of these
sick playing cards. Follow the rules. They're very simple. Do
the thing and maybe you can win a deck of
rich Manly playing cards. They're pretty cool. He showed him
to me on the screen. They look amazing, they look
really old. They're made by the Bicycle Playing Card Company,
so you know that that's a quality product and they're
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endorsed by not only rich Manly but me and we
don't endorse garbage. Check out Culture Shock season one on TOB.
Anticipate Culture Shock season two on TOB. Check out the
touring show of Diary of magic, and don't forget to
enter for a chance to win one of five brand
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new playing cards. These are brand new. Nobody you know
has these things yet, so intervert chance to win and
maybe you will win them. And this is my second
conversation with actor, magician and adventure seeker Rich Manly. For
credit be fascinating, for Beret to be fascinating, for berettit
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to be fascinating. Welcome back to Fascination Street Podcast. Rich Manly.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
How you doing man, I'm doing well. I'm doing pretty good.
I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
We're glad to have you, ladies and gentlemen street walkers.
This is Rich's second time on the show. The first
time was released eleven thirty, twenty twenty. So we're not
going to do the whole where did you come from?
How did you get their thing? Because you can go
back and check that out in his first episode. But
what we are going to do is we're going to
catch up. Man, it's been four and a half years,
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five and a half years or so for it's for Yeah,
it's been four and a half years. Well what's going on?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Many things are happening, you know, I just had this
show come out on two B Culture Shock. I've been
working on that, you know, I've been working on other projects.
I just had a deck of cards come out that
I'm selling in conjunction with the show.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Wait you have your own deck of cards?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Now I've got my own deck of cards. Yes.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Oh, we're going to get there for sure. So when
you were on last time, we talked about your show
Culture Shock, but it was culture Shock and then a
bunch of words?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Is it still culture Shock and a bunch of words?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's still culture Shock and a bunch of words, but
the bunch of words is bridging cultures through magic. I
don't know if that was the same bunch of words,
but that's a bunch of words.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It isn't okay. So when we talked four and a
half years ago, you had made this show and I
think back then it was for to B right yep.
And now you guys have the green light to shoot
a second season? Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yes? Second season. I'm actually leaving June sixth to go
to Bolivia.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Oh snap? So where who was the first season shot?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
First season was in Peru Andi's Amazon. Then we went
to Africa, we went to Namibia, we went to Ethiopia.
We shot some of the episode in the Western United States.
We shot some in West Virginia, so we're kind of
like all over and this next season is really going
to be Alaska, Bolivia, Costa Rica. We're going, you know,
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back to Africa again, and then we've got some other
episodes that we're in talks with for potential third season.
I don't want to jump the gun though.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
This second season is with two b as well, Yes,
are you going to come to San Antonio and shoot anything?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Well? Tell me what kind of culture can I experience there?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Have you seen the movie Coco?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Is that the animated movie? Uh? Huh okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
So I was born and raised in San Antonio, And
when I saw that movie Coco, I know that it
technically is supposed to take place in like Mexico. But
when I saw that movie, I was looking around the
movie that I was like, y'all know, this is San Antonio, right,
this is here, just me that's what you could expect.
It's a very Hispanic culture. This city is older than
the country, Like this city is I don't know what
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is America, like three hundred years old or something. The
city's like three hundred and seventy five years old. So
we got a lot of stuff here. We got the Alamo,
and people seem to forget that that was a losing battle,
but it was still fun. We could discuss that you
could disappear the Alamo.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
That's true. Or if you like magic over there, then
why not we could talk about it. You and I
will have a discussion. We'll see how we can say.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It'll just be us. I don't know if there's a
huge magic culture here. One of the things that I
love about magic, and I think I told this story
the last time we spoke is people's reactions. I'm sure
that that is one of your favorite things too, And
there is a particular demographic that seems to be more
astonished than maybe some of the other demographics. The only
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time I've ever seen an illusionist in person again, I
think we talked about the first time, but basically, he
put an egg in his pocket and turned it into
a live chicken. And the people that were there that
saw that, I've never seen such a reaction to anything
in my life. It was amazing just to watch the
crowd after that happened. When did you first know that
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you were going to pursue magic. I don't want to
say exclusively, because you do some acting and some producing
as well. But when did you know you were going
to focus so much on magic?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I would have to say it kind of happened when
I was doing magic in Los Angeles. You know. This
was before we really did the travel thing where I
was incorporating travel into the magic. But magic has always
been something I've done since I was a kid, since
I was ten. You know. The reason is because my
grandfather was a magician himself. He didn't do it, you know,
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as a profession. He was taught slide of hand in
medical school to be better with his finger dexterity and
hand dexterity. So as a kid, i'd see him go
to all these you know places and travel and bring
home all these trinkets of things he'd find in the countries.
I remember him showing me a magic critic when I
was ten, and so it was a trick where you'd
do a slide of hand making a card disappear, and
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it was very difficult, but I stuck with it. So
I had learned that really hard slide of hands since
I was a kid, and I just kept playing with
cards I kept playing with coins, I kept developing these
magic effects, reading books on magic because I just became obsessed.
After my grandfather showed me that trick and telling me
all the stories of him traveling around the world, I
was like, Oh, I could be an Indiana Jones magician. Great. So,
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you know, I kind of fell more into the magic
thing when I started doing at bars and events in
Los Angeles and people would get blown away and they'd say, oh, wow,
you're really good. Like what I remember. I did it
for a Curt Desolee group. It was for a business
function and it was in Hollywood, and this really stuck
with me till this day. And one of the guys
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that I was doing it for he said, you know
that trick you just did. You did that better than
I think it was Chris Angel or whatever.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
At the time, Oh you better watch your mouth, bro.
His producer's listening.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Hey, just so you know this happened, So he said that,
you know, Chris sorry. I was like, really, you know,
to me, it was such just an innate ability that
I did magic. So I started to think about it
more seriously and say, you know, maybe I should take
magic a little bit more seriously. Because you know, I
really it just been something that's passed down to me
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through my family, and I commend all the magicians that
truly enter it as a career, and for me, it
was always just a hobby and something I learned. But
that moment was like, oh, you know, I could kind
of turn this into something a little bit more professional,
because you know, people are saying, oh, you're you're good
at it. I took that kind of as a badge
of okay, maybe I can actually consider myself a magician
at this point.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
So you were hired to do magic for a corporate
event before you even were serious about magic.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah, it was weird.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
How did the word get out? Like? How does that happen?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Because you know, I I used to go to these
local bars here in Los Angeles and in my twenties,
I'd have all my magic in different pockets and a
leather jacket and I'd go out and I would just
do tricks after tricks, you know, fireballs shooting out of
my hands.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Now, were you trying to get free drinks or were
you're trying to get laid? Why are you wearing a
magic vest to these bars?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
It was probably a combination of those two.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
However, what ended up happening more often than not was
just completely blackout drunk because they'd be giving me shots
after shots, and apparently according to the bartenders that they
would say.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Wow, your magic is getting better the more you drink.
That actually had to be a thing for me, you know,
and so they'd give you more shots. And you know,
I remember being on table, standing on tables doing magic
for people because everyone was just gathered around me and
they wanted to see more magic. You know. The bars
were just they were like, oh, more magic, and it
was this crazy thing. And so that's how word really
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got out. And like I said, you know, it was
just something that I enjoy doing and seeing the reaction
from people. But I never took it seriously. A lot
of the slight of hand that I did was intricate slights,
but you know, I reused the same classics. It's very true,
I think with anything anyone does, when you stick to
the basics, the basics and the classics of anything is
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really what marvels people the most. And I found that out,
like all the intricate stuff that I practiced over the
years doesn't normally work with people because they're like oh,
he's doing all the slight of hand, but the basic
simple things, those are the tricks I do. People would
go crazy, you know, I just word of mouth. People
were like, oh, we should do this corporate event. This
is how much it's paying.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
And I was like, sure, I'll be right there. Yeah,
let me put on my magic jacket.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Let me put on that magic leather jacket. It's all
set up.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Is it heavy? Is it hot?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
It was hot. It was heavy. There was tubes, all
sorts of crap running through it.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
It was how many handkerchiefs? We tell you, yes, don't
answer that. That's a trade secret. Okay. So season one
took place in all of those places you mentioned earlier
and out. Season one was based on your grandfather's diary
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ish right, where he kind of went to the same
places and did some of the same things. Is season
two also based on some of your grandfather's exploits.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So season two kind of fears a little bit from that.
I mean, it's still following my grandfather's places he went
because there are inspirations for why I know there, but
it's kind of like passing the torch a little bit.
So the first season was, you know, that was the
through line second season is more you know, my grandfather
loved adventure, and you know I've always loved adventure too,
you know, rock climbing and I mean he actually climbed
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the Metal Horn back in the day with leather boots
and a wooden piellette, you know, like hardcore. He loved
doing all those outdoor activities. So a lot of the
second season is more geared toward all right, you know,
what are the adventure skills you need to get to
different communities. You know, like in Bolivia, we're going to
scale six thousand meter peak and you know, meet these
women that are called Chilita's and they're that are basically
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mountaineering women that wear traditional catchu all looking garb. It's
really interesting. And so we're gonna meet the cultures. We're
gonna do adventures and really focus on the adventure aspect
as well as the cultural aspect.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
With magic, so there still will be magic, There still
will be magic, but you're going to focus a little
bit more on the culture in sort of an Anthony
Bourdain kind of way.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, I would say it's Anthony Bourdain, but you know
Anthony Bourdain with adventure. I put it that.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Way, what's the weirdest thing you have eaten on one
of these trips?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
God, Well, there was one that really freaked me out,
and it was these mopawnee worms in Africa, where they're
these crunchy fried worms that are you know, like they're
like this big. I mean they're you know, I mean
they're big worms and they're like this big around they're
like slugs. They had a whole bowl full of them
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in Ethiopia, and I didn't know what I was eating
at this they said they had a delicacy for me
and they wanted me to try it at this shop.
They brought him forward and I was talking to my fixer.
I said, what in the hell this is a worm?
And she's like, yeah, it's a delicacy. You just dipped
them in the sauce and you eat it. I kept
trying to eat it. I could not eat that. And
then one of the guys, the photographers in the crew,
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he's like, oh, you know, I can do this. You know,
he takes it and he eats it and you can
hear the chew and the crunch and then you see
his face just melt away. I was like, oh God.
After he said I would never do that again. It's
now what you expect. It kind of explodes in your mouth.
It's a scrunch me. Oh, I remember, you know. They're like, okay,
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you're during Rich and I had the worm, you know,
I was gonna eat it up out of my mouth,
and then I just I felt like a jerk, but
I could not eat it for the life of me,
you know. And then then Ethiopia too, they gave me
this fermented beer where the guy said to me, oh,
by the way, we don't have any antibiotics, but here,
you know, and I was like, what, wait a minute,
Wait a minute, what does that even mean.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
That's not a good Why are you saying those things together?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, those two words together are not not okay with me.
So now this season, basically everyone you know has been saying,
let's see what we can find for Rich to eat.
That'll be the weirdest, oh strangest thing in Blivia. And
I said, great, thanks guys, I appreciate you looking out
for me.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Wow, you need a new team bro.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Jesus something they put me through Chris.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Real quick, I want to touch on some of your
acting credits. We're going to get back to culture shock
in a second. But you were in sleigh Bells with
Barry Bosswick. Yes, s l a y, folks, I'm gonna
need Barry Bosswick's home phone number. Okay, I'll wait. Okay,
So how did that How did that project come about?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I knew a producer at the time, and she was
looking to cast this role, and you know, she thought
I'd be good for it. I don't really think I
I really auditioned. They just kind of showed my hedgehot
to the director, producer or the other producer, and then
I guess the lead at the time. You know, there's
a good chunk to the part. But I mean, I
don't want to spoil it, but the character doesn't last long.
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It is a horror movie, so you can imagine what
happens to me. I won't say what, but let's just
say my time was cut short by a giant crampus monster.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
When you do acting roles like that one or the
debt collector, is there there's no magic in it. You're
just an actor. You're just an actor. There's no They're
not like, hey, come to also do magic.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
There is a level of that behind the scenes, you know,
where people are like, oh yeah, before we you know,
start filming, let's see something. Sometimes I'll be asked to
do magic, so I'll do magic, you know, and then yeah,
sometimes I just want to focus on what I'm doing,
so I'll leave the cards at home or something like that.
But yeah, people do often ask go, can I see
magic behind the scenes, but it's normally not part of
the project on camera.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Have you ever been in a project where they hired
you for acting, but then they were like, holy shit,
you can do magic. Let's write some magic of this project.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I think that did happen one time, but it wasn't
where I was acting in a project. It was a
stand in thing for I was doing stand in work
at the time, like way back. I think first was
for Ryan Murphy. I remember sitting there standing in for
the lead. I think it was American Harst where it
is something I don't know which project of his. But
then he stops the whole, the whole shooting, and he's like,
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is that the guy you know? Is? Ryan Murphy? Is
like I think it's like that's him, right, And I'm
just like, yeah, that's me.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
What guy?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah? Me? What guy?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Do they know I stole something from Crafty? What guy?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, I know I put that back, and so you know,
he's like, yeah, that's the guy, you know, and and
I was like, guys, I'm confused. Does somebody tell me
what's happening right now? I thought I was just supposed
to stand in and you guys like the scene and
they're like, oh, the magic guy, Yeah, I want to
see something. Let's everyone's saying you're good at magic, and
I'm like, all right, well let's bring so I remember, yeah,
I did some magic for Ryan Murphy at that point.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
That was interesting. He was so impressed he never hired
you again exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
So you know, I think, did I give up magice?
Should I give up acting? Which one? Should I give one?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Should you just give up? Ryan Murphy?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
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Speaker 2 (18:23):
I did mention the Deck Collector, starring the great and
powerful Michael Perey. Okay, I'm going to need his phone
number two. All right, I appreciate it. Thank you so
much for that.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I'm keeping notes. I'm keeping notes.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I need to know more about your cards. What?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Oh the cards? These cards are? So?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Is this like a deck of fifty two cards and
two jokers and I can play solitaire with them? Or
is this a deck that I can whip at somebody
and slit their throat. Tell me about these cards.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
You can do whatever you choose. If you choose to
break the law with these cards, I'm not responsible.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
That's not on you. Okay, it's not me.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
But it is funny because you know, whenever I do
talk or you know, when I'm in the car, I
actually always have a deck of cards. So I actually
have them right here. This is them.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
And I saw that you just threw them from one
hand to another, which means they're all connected by string.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yes, they're connected by a very fine string. But anyway,
they're old looking, vintage looking.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Bro, They're so old looking. Oh I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I've had these for centuries actually, and they just finally
came out.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Oh my gosh, that looks like me.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
How did you know that? I was just going to
do a character of you before the show? Wow? But
there you go. That's what that's Magellan. They're based off
famous explorer, So all the court cards are famous explorers.
Back cards are compasses, and they're designed to look old.
But yeah, I'm selling these cards. We just came out
with them USPCC Bicycle Playing Cards. Oh popped them out
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for us, so you know they're all bicycle grade and
I'm actually going to be using them on a live show,
live touring show that I'm doing throughout the States, performing
with these, and then I'm selling them on the website,
my website and also at my live shows.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Why did you decide to come out with your own
deck of cards?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
You know, It's one of those things that I always
wanted to do it I finally got the chance to
really do. You know, because I'm always playing with cards,
and I see all these other card designers and magicians
coming out with their cards. You know, David Blaine has his,
and Chris angel As his, and you know Dan and Dave,
the cardists and flooriashers have theirs, and I was like,
you know, I just always wanted to come up with
a deck of cards that I could call my own,
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that I could use for any of my performances that
were mine. So that's where they came from.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I mean, even Neil Patrick Harris has his own cards. Yes,
I just made that up. Does he really? He probably does.
He's got everything else. Son of a gun.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I think he has a box set. Now he has
a game.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Jesus, of course he does.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah, it's like a board game that he has come out.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Since we're talking about Neil, was he the president when
you were performing at Magic Castle?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
No? I was performing after he was the president, so
I just missed him being the president of the castle.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Who was the president when you were performing?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Don't put me on that hot seat because I don't
even know. And now they're like, you don't even know
who is the president? I lovely don't even know.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
That's cool, that's cool. Who's the president? Now?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
See?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Look at when is the last time and have you
been uninvited? When was the last time you were in
the Magic Castle?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
If I have been invited, I will be now.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Thanks, I got your back.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
The last time that I went, I haven't been to
the Magic Castle in probably four years or five years
or so. I mean the last time I actually performed
there was probably six years ago. And then I just
kind of stopped going, probably because I didn't know who
the president was until she just said stop coming.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
So are you not a member? And do you have
to be a member?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
You have to be a member. I used to be
a member there. No, truthfully, I just really got really busy,
you know, I got busy with the travel stuff. Culture
shocks started happening, and so it was just more difficult
for me to maintain the membership and go. But the
Magic Castle is a great place and I did love
going there and performing there. But yeah, I just life
got in the way with all these other projects. So
no longer a member, but one day I will pop
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back in there.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
How much of these cards? So you have just jumping
all over the place. Let's go back to your cards. Yeah, well,
how much are they on your website?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Well you can get.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
No, No, I don't mean me, I'm special. I mean
what about the normal people?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Oh okay, well people can get these for three hundred
dollars or two for five hundred.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Nice. That's a special fascination street podcast pricing folks.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
And none of them are autographed.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
No, none of them. If you want to autographed, though,
that's double no. There's actually three prize points on them,
and they start at twelve dollars for the pack for
this regular pack. Then we're doing seventeen dollars for a pack,
plus a download of a magic trick that's incorporated into
the cards. The jokers are Actually there's three jokers and
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you can perform a magical illusion with them, a slide
of hand trick that I teach in the download for
anybody that wants to buy them for that case. And
then here comes the signed option. There is a signed
option with the download, and we're selling that at twenty
so you get signed deck of these cards twenty bucks
plus the download, so then you can learn this magic
trick that's kind of incorporated in it.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
The second one, there's a download of a magic trick
where you can turn three jokers into a trick or whatever.
Is there an option where there's four jokers?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Well, you just blew your mind, I hear. I was
all excited about three jokers and you have to bring
in the fourth one.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
That's what I do?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Man, Yeah, thanks dude.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
How should we give them away? What should we make
the peoples do?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
What? Don't you do it? On social media? Follow Rich
on social but also follow fascination treet. We'll do like
a collaboration between both of us. So follow us both
and you get free deck of cards plus watch the show.
You gotta watch the show.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
All right, So make sure you follow Rich C. Manly
on Instagram. Tag both of us and let us know
that you heard this episode and we will give away
five decks of cards to five different lucky listeners. You
gotta follow those rules, follow both of us, tag us,
say you listen to this episode, and then you too
can be maybe a winner of this dope deck of cards.
(24:21):
What's the website?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Website where you can buy them is expedition rich dot com.
So I've got cards on there. I've got a watch.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Tell me about the watch.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
So the watch is actually a collaboration with a Scudo
and a Scudo Watches is a watch company in the UK.
They manufacture all their parts their Swiss parts, and you know,
I found them online. I really like their watches. Their
watches are more upscale, you know, they sell their watches
at premium prices. They're like two thousand dollars USD watches.
(24:53):
But I was like, hey, you know, I'd love to
design a watch and utilize your company and the parts
you put you you know, all the parts and how
you put them together. And so we did. We came
up with an Expedition Rich watch as well, and so
that's on the site too. So you get cards the watch.
You know, I'm also selling some prints too, and photos
and things that I take, you know, on all the travels.
(25:14):
I'm also doing photography when I get the chance, when
i'm not you know, eating worms or weird things like that.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
What about the watch did you design?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
It was the scheme, like the color scheme, the logo,
the band, you know, the band has that color scheme.
It's more of a we did like a black and
an orange, which is what my you know, my logo
Expedition Ridge really is. It's a black and an orange.
So it's a color scheme of black and orange. With
this more rugged band. They have a lot of you know,
bracelet style that's silver bracelets that go on them. But
(25:46):
I wanted something where you see that little rubber strapped
like you like, it's like that on the watch. But
you can get three different bands. You can get a
sailcloth band, you can get the rubber band, which is
great for if you're going in the water, and then
you can also get the bracelet with it too for
more of an upscale look.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Nice. You had mentioned that you're going to be using
these cards when you're doing a roadshow a tour. This
will be Diary of Magic is that correct. Yes, tell
me about Diary of Magic extra points if you can
use the words Chris Angel.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
So what do I get for the extra points?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It's good for a discount on the three hundred dollars
set of cards at your website, just.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
In case I need to buy some for myself. Fantastic,
All right, I'll take that. So basically, Diary of Magic
is part of this wiggle Room entertainment. They're kind of
like the overhead, the umbrella of everything, and.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
That is run by Eric Record here comes who worked
with Chris Angel. Oh yes, Records to be Angel's producer
coming up when they were doing Mind Freak. So that
is the Chris Angel connection. And I have actually met
Chris too, which is why I said sorry to him earlier.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah, because he's a listener, is he?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Because yeah, all right, well.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Previous guests listener. Well I just made all of that up.
But that's cool.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Well that's cool. So anyway, the record us to be,
you know, mind Freak, the producer for that with Chris.
So he developed this touring intimate venues and it's not
just magic. I'm one of the acts in it, but
he has a chef, he has a detective in Los Angeles,
who's this famous detective that was on the OJ Simpson case.
And basically what all these acts do is they get
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up on stage for about an hour in an intimate setting.
Our first show is in the Loew's Hotel here in Hollywood.
It packs about sixty people, and it's really about that experience.
So you're not up on a stage. You've got all
these people. We're in the penthouse suite of the Low's
Hotel for the first month mine starting July July twelfth
is my show, and then I'll be there for the
whole month into you know, next month. But basically it's
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performing for this small intimate group. And my show in
particular is called Diary of Magic. In it talks about
my world travels and the people I've met, the dangers,
the experiences, but then showcasing magic from those experiences. For instance,
you know, I was in Sri Lanka. I met this
shaman who was a member of the Veda tribe. Now,
the Veda tribe believe strongly in the dead, so they're relatives.
(28:17):
They believe that there they're dead. Relatives protect them from
demons and they have a very powerful person in the
village she's an exorcist, and this actis told me the
story that he had a girl swallow fifty needles at
one point.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Did you say fifty five zero?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Fifty five zero needles? And she swallowed them because she
had a stomach ache. And they believe that, you know,
if you're depressed, if you have a stomach ache, even
if you have a headache, then you're possessed by a
demon and the exorcist has to be called and he
has to exercise that demon. So the way he did
it was he had to swallow those needles. Then he
had her swallow a piece of thread. And you know
he's saying he fetched the needles out with the thread.
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That was part of the magic effect. And when the
needles come out tight on, that means that the demon
has been exercised.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Is this a trick that you can do? Is this
an illusion that you can do?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yes? So basically I calls them up on stage. I say,
you know, here's fifteen needles. These are what they look like.
Take one of those needles, boom, swallow that needle. I've
got some thread, and then proceed to reenact.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You pull some unsuspecting fool up on stage and tell
them to swallow a needle and they do it.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
You know, I didn't think about it. I mean, I
swallow a needle and then I pull up. But you
know you're onto something. Maybe I should have them swallow
the needle. Yeah, get idiots, I think you're onto something.
Why am I going to swallow the needle? Why am
I putting myself into danger?
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Seriously? I mean, don't you do an illusion where like
you tell somebody to pick a card and then I
don't know, you turn it into like their tattoo.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
I do do that. How did you know that I
did that? How do you know that I do that?
Speaker 2 (29:50):
So here's what you do. You have them swallow a
needle and then you turn their tattoo into a dead
picture of them because they swallow needles.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I don't Oh that's a good that's a good one.
I'll get back to you on that.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Take that. Eric Ricker, how did it come to be
a part of this Eric Ricker thing? And is the
whole thing called Diary of Magic or is that just
your particular that's.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
My show within the wiggle Room. Wiggle Room is the
whole touring act where a bunch of acts will go
around the country and I'm part of it. But the
whole Eric record thing came about. You know, I'd always
gone at this magic shop here in Studio City, and
I had met this magician, Tony Clark. If anyone knows magic,
he's done magic for forever. And I'm sure you know
(30:35):
people will know the name of they're magicians. I had
met him. I talked a lot about my travels and
he thought it was really cool. He's like, you know,
I really like the angle of how you've come at
magic with a story. You know, you have your grandfather
who's the one that taught you magic. He was an adventurer,
he traveled around the world. You know, this is a
great story, and now you're following in his footsteps. And
he said, you know a lot of magicians these days,
thing that's holding them back is the story. You know,
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that's really important to have as a story, not just
the skills. So he introduced me to Eric. Eric loved
the whole story as well, and we developed the show together.
There's things I can't talk about right now, but we
are developing other TV shows for a global, big network.
I can't even say the name, but I will tell
you that something big in the future will be happening
(31:18):
involving a big Chris Angel style Blaine style stunt.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
So this will be a show centered around a singular
illusion or stunt.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Yes, yes, and lead up to that.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Okay, So it's not like the Chris Angel TV show
where he did all this crazy station. This would be
more like when David Blaine said, in a box suspended above,
who cares? Yes, exactly, like a singular stunt like that.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
All right, I'll give it away. Oh cool, I'm going
to sit in a chair for forty minutes, you know,
just sit there.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
That's cool, that's cool. I love that. I can't wait
to see how you do it.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
You're welcome to, you know, have me back on again
to document the experience from your point of view.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I don't know, forty minutes. The audio version of watching
somebody sit in a chair for forty minutes doesn't sound
too enticing, just the audio of it.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Yeah, well, you know, there's you know, maybe a bag
of chips opening.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Oh I love this ASMR thing. Oh you're going to
eat the We'll just you'll eat Doritos and we'll tell
them it's those crazy worms.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah right, So.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Here's what I think you should do whenever somebody in
one of these crazy countries tries to get you to
eat some weirdsh I think you should do the same
thing and pull some weird Americans dish out of your pocket,
like hell, could gummy bear at them and see what happens?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
What kind of bad idea? I'll bring a pack of
gummy bears?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yeah, you can go. Oh here, it's nice and warm.
It's been in my pocket all day like that.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, exactly. I'm going to write that down because it's
a good way to bridge the cultures and make them
hate me and never want me to come back again.
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Speaker 4 (33:39):
Let's get back into it.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
So, all this traveling that you do, are you ever
in danger? Just I don't mean like danger doing your
your illusions or backpacking up a mountain or whatever. I mean,
are you ever in any danger from freaking people out
because of your magic?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Like?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Does your magic ever get you in trouble?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah? I mean it does. You know, there are certain
communities that really believe that someone has magical powers that
they're you know, there to be either feared or revered.
So we oftentimes have to tell the community and the
fixtures that you know that look, this is entertainment. Rich
is not here to prove that he is a warlock.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
But you are a warlock though, right, just for clarity,
you are a warlock.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yeah, but we don't tell them that.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
I'll bleep that out.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Yeah, thank you. So basically, yeah, we we go, you know,
we tell them, hey, look he's not a warlock. This
is just a magic trick. But even then, you know,
doing some of these effects, I've had people you know,
run away, you know, and they just keep running. They
don't come back, and we're like.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Well wait, like Forrest Gump running like they're still running.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Yeah, they just run, they run, you know, the cameras
still rolling. I mean we had a I remember it
was in Africa. We had these girls that came up.
I did an effect for them, and I had something
just appear on their hands. She was so freaked out.
She just ran like down the road. She kept running
and she didn't stop. We waited because we thought she'd
come back, and uh, you know, we were all like, oh,
she's she's gone, you know, and that was it.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
So when you say you you had something appear on
her hand, was it like a bug or a tattoo? Like?
Speaker 1 (35:10):
What you know me too? Well, obviously it's a tattoo.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Oh okay, cool, Yeah, it's a tattoo of me, oddly enough,
me as Magellan. It was so weird?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Is that why she was running.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Yeah, I love that. Rich. What's the name of this
TV show? You won't tell me about the one where
you're going to do this illusion. You won't tell me about, Oh,
the network one, the Secret one, the super secret one.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
See, I can't even tell you this is the name
of the secret because if I tell you the name,
but it's going to give the whole thing away.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Cool, everybody. Make sure you tune into all of the
networks doing all of the tricks, and maybe eventually you'll
see the one that we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yes, and by the way, we're just talking. Whatever I say,
we're just talking. I mean, whatever comes out, I can't be,
you know, accountable.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
For Such is the life of a Warlock?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
How long is the shoot for Culture Shock season two?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
You know the first season you've got thirty minute episodes.
That's gonna still have the same format. It's going to
be thirty minute episodes. There will be six episodes in
season two. There were six episodes in season one. And
at the end of every episode, which is something that
we kind of put in there at the end because
we thought it would be interesting, is there's a how
to so it teaches us. So I teach you how
to do a magic trick at the end of every episode.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
And this is why you're not allowed to go to
the Magic Castle anymore.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
I don't know if you know this, but fellow warlocks
and magicians, they don't really like when their secrets are spilled.
Have you seen the movie Illusionists or whatever it was called,
Like they'll kill you for that.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Yes, So now you know the behind the scenes of
why I'm no longer allowed, and that's why you're always
in danger exactly exactly. Watch my back now.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
So I interrupted at the end. I'm watching your back
right now. So at the end of each episode, you
teach us how to do what I'm sorry I interrupted you.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
So I teach everyone how to do a magic effect.
I mean, these are basic effects. You can literally buy
a book on it, so you know, the more Warlock
style effects, you really have to become a member of
the community, the guild, yes or yes, exactly. So I'm
just touching upon a very fine line of some just
basic techniques that you can do at home if you're
(37:22):
interested in magic, and again you could you could easily
find them in a book. There are actually a lot
of the effects that I first learned when I was
a kid, and I had this little book that I
would go through and try to show my parents these
these tricks. Yeah, it's really how I got started. So
I figured, hey, you know, everybody once to get started
in magic. They like what they're watching. Here's a little
fun thing you can do at home.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Do you have disclaimers on each episode? Do not try
this at home, like when you're making people swallow needles,
or you're like, don't try this at home. This is dangerous,
closed course with the professional driver, don't try this at home.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yes, I mean, you know, if I'm doing something crazy
like that, we tend to have disclaimers. We can do
that on the show. You know these things are dangerous,
don't try them at home, that sort of thing, because
you know, I mean, I've had experiences where I have
tried to do some of these things they have gone wrong.
There's a routine that's notoriously goes wrong, which is I
don't know if you've seen this on YouTube, but you
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have cups that are in a line you know normally
is three or four, and then underneath one of those
cups is a spike or a knife, or something, and
the magician basically is supposed to say, Okay, I'm gonna
smash all the cups except for the one that has
the knife under it. And that's gone wrong on me
before on you. Yes, a loser, a way to make
(38:34):
me feel great. I'm here for you, buddy, exactly. But yeah,
it has gone wrong. So yeah, I have to put
a disclaimer for myself as well. You know, I guess.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Here's what you should do the next time that that
happens and it goes wrong. You should smash it down
with one hand, and then you smash it down with
the other hand, and then you hold up both hands
and you go, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
There you go. There, you just solved my problem. You know.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
It's like Prince, you know, Prince the Guitarist. Every time
he would mess up, he would do it again. So
the people they did it on purpose. So you just
do it twice.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Yeah right, clever. Uh yeah, yeah, I may I may
need you on some of these magic tricks as a consultant.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
I'm coming after your job, Eric Recker. You're going to
tour with wiggle Room and DIARYCT Magic, So I know
you're doing a residency in La first, But then is
are you going to tour the US with this show?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Yes, so we're looking at against Hollywood areas. The first
one that we're looking at Ohio.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
That's a wild swing from Hollywood to Ohio.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yeah, don't ask me where in Ohio? In Cleveland?
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Then you know my hometown Boston obviously Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
I think you have to say Boston, but okay, Yes.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
The interesting thing is I never got the accent, you know.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, it's weird. You don't have it at all. No,
you don't sound like you're from Boston. Now, you couldn't
pack the cat and have it. Yeah if you tried.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
No, I know, I never got it, you know, And
I never even tried to do the accent because I
knew it's like one of those things where if I
were to try it, I'd probably never lose it. I'd
be stuck, yeah, stick with it, and everyone would be like,
what the hell happened to rich? You know? So I
just never tried it. There's mass Chusetts. Then we're looking
at Bahamas, Hawaii, and so get a little more tropical,
(40:22):
a little bit more. I can, you know, relax vacation.
I believe they also want to do potentially Utah, mid
somewhere in the Midwest too. I don't think they have
exact dates for the rest of it planned out, but
those states in particular are on the list.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Very cool. And where might someone go to find out
which cities are on the list or how to get tickets?
You know a huge fan base in Cleveland, yes.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
So the best way to do it would be to
go to two websites. You can go to the wiggle
Room dot com. They'll have it, which is you know,
the whole umbrella. They'll have other shows too, if anyone's
interested in other shows in the area, but my personal shows.
To be able to find out you know, when they're
coming out for the TV and then also when the
live shows are happening, you go to www dot expedition
rich dot com and you can find everything there.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
So everything rich manly is going to be at Expedition
rich dot com.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Yes, yes, everything about me. If you want more specifics,
like on Cultureshock, we do have a specific culture Shock website.
It's www dot cultureshock magic dot com, So you go there.
You can find out anything you want on Cultureshock.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
And where might someone find you on social media if
they wanted to follow your exploits, because you post all
kinds of crazy pictures of your travels. So where where
could they go to find that?
Speaker 1 (41:33):
All my stuff on socials is on Insta And it's
richt Manly.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
What's the C stand for?
Speaker 1 (41:38):
That's none in your business, Steve?
Speaker 2 (41:40):
The C stands for secret?
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Exactly? Do you know my middle name? Have you done
your research? Steve? Do you know my middle name?
Speaker 2 (41:48):
I do not know your middle name.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Take a guest, start with a C.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
I'm going to go with Christopher.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
I thought you'd say Christopher because that's.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
My middle name. That's why you thought that I would
say that.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Actually, in fact, I knew you. I thought you'd say Christopher,
which is why I have a pull down here. I'm
about to do an effect for you that says Christopher,
but I forgot to set it up.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
So nice love it. Yeah, it's tattooed on my hand.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Look at here we go, But it's actually Craig, So
it's it's rich Craig Manly. That's what the SEA stands for.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
I would go with cheddar.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Cheddar Kitter, Jtter's not bad.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Good Jedter Manly rich Jitter Manly.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Sure that is the best ring for the adventure, but
I could tru it.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
I mean, nothing travels better than cheese. All right, Rich,
this is getting ridiculous and I blame me. Everybody. Go
check out Expedition rich dot com for all of the
things that we talked about. Check out those super Sick
playing cards, which I will be purchasing. My son collects
playing cards, so I'm definitely going to get some of those.
(42:58):
And also go to wiggle room and find out where
and when Diary of Magic is going to come to
a city near you. The television channel two B, which
is the streaming network, it's everywhere. Go back and check
out the first season and then hold on to your
chair until the next season comes out. Do you have
any idea when season two is going to be released.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
We're shooting season two all this year, so it's probably
going to be released. I would say January February. It'll
be next year, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Nice. I wish you all over the luck and your travels. Also,
in the meantime, check out Ritzy Manly everyone on social media.
Make sure that when you do reach out and comment
and like all of his stuff, that you tell him
that you heard him here on Fascination Street podcast. I
will wait for you to text me the phone numbers
for Barry Bosswick and Michael Perey. I'll just wait by
(43:48):
my phone like we did in the eighties in the meantime, Dude,
rich Manley, thank you so much for taking the time
out of your busy day and you're hectic traveling all
over the world freaking of people out with your warlockness
schedule to hang out and let us get to know
a little bit more about you on Fascination Street.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
Man.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Yeah, this was fun. Thanks for having me, Steve Rich Chittermanley.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Rich Chittermanley, I'm gonna call your parents and see if
I can get them to officially change your name from
Craig to Cheddter.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
You probably shouldn't call them.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
They would be freaked out if I did. They'd be like,
who are you and how did you get this number?
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Yeah, they'd.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Who's this clown? All right? Rich? Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Man.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
You have a great rest of your week.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
I will talk to you later. Man, be safe and
all your travels seriously and don't eat anywhere station try
not to, all right.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
I appreciate Steve. It's always pleasure to see you.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
Bye, buddy.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
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Welcome back, Street Walkers. This is a return appearance with
previous guests of the show, rich Manly Rich is an
actor and wait for it, an illusionist. That's right, he's
a magician. In this episode, we barely talk about his
acting career almost at all, because we're focusing on his
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illusionary adventures. Rich Many, the adventure, illusionist and Explorer has
a show on to B. It is called Culture Shock.
Season one came out a couple of years ago. There
are six episodes and it is some crazy, wild stuff.
They are currently filming the second season and you can
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expect that to come out probably towards the beginning of
next year. But in this episode we talk about some
of the places he's going to be going for season two.
We talk a little bit about how he got into
magic and some of his favorite illusions. We also talk
about his live stage show Diary of magic. He will
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be touring around the world, starting in the US and
then going to some of the more tropical destinations with
this show, So make sure you check out where those
are going to be and go see him in person
doing some really insane stuff. And also rich has designed
his own deck of playing cards. There's three different price
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points for these playing cards, and there is some illusions
included in one or two of these options. That said,
we do have a giveaway on this show. Pay attention
when we start talking about his playing cards, because we're
giving them away. That's right, Rich c Manly and I
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are teaming up to give away five decks of these
sick playing cards. Follow the rules. They're very simple. Do
the thing and maybe you can win a deck of
rich Manly playing cards. They're pretty cool. He showed him
to me on the screen. They look amazing, they look
really old. They're made by the Bicycle Playing Card Company,
so you know that that's a quality product and they're
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endorsed by not only rich Manly but me and we
don't endorse garbage. Check out Culture Shock season one on TOB.
Anticipate Culture Shock season two on TOB. Check out the
touring show of Diary of magic, and don't forget to
enter for a chance to win one of five brand
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new playing cards. These are brand new. Nobody you know
has these things yet, so intervert chance to win and
maybe you will win them. And this is my second
conversation with actor, magician and adventure seeker Rich Manly. For
credit be fascinating, for Beret to be fascinating, for berettit
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to be fascinating. Welcome back to Fascination Street Podcast. Rich Manly.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
How you doing man, I'm doing well. I'm doing pretty good.
I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
We're glad to have you, ladies and gentlemen street walkers.
This is Rich's second time on the show. The first
time was released eleven thirty, twenty twenty. So we're not
going to do the whole where did you come from?
How did you get their thing? Because you can go
back and check that out in his first episode. But
what we are going to do is we're going to
catch up. Man, it's been four and a half years,
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five and a half years or so for it's for Yeah,
it's been four and a half years. Well what's going on?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Many things are happening, you know, I just had this
show come out on two B Culture Shock. I've been
working on that, you know, I've been working on other projects.
I just had a deck of cards come out that
I'm selling in conjunction with the show.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Wait you have your own deck of cards?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Now I've got my own deck of cards. Yes.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Oh, we're going to get there for sure. So when
you were on last time, we talked about your show
Culture Shock, but it was culture Shock and then a
bunch of words?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Is it still culture Shock and a bunch of words?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's still culture Shock and a bunch of words, but
the bunch of words is bridging cultures through magic. I
don't know if that was the same bunch of words,
but that's a bunch of words.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It isn't okay. So when we talked four and a
half years ago, you had made this show and I
think back then it was for to B right yep.
And now you guys have the green light to shoot
a second season? Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yes? Second season. I'm actually leaving June sixth to go
to Bolivia.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Oh snap? So where who was the first season shot?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
First season was in Peru Andi's Amazon. Then we went
to Africa, we went to Namibia, we went to Ethiopia.
We shot some of the episode in the Western United States.
We shot some in West Virginia, so we're kind of
like all over and this next season is really going
to be Alaska, Bolivia, Costa Rica. We're going, you know,
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back to Africa again, and then we've got some other
episodes that we're in talks with for potential third season.
I don't want to jump the gun though.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
This second season is with two b as well, Yes,
are you going to come to San Antonio and shoot anything?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Well? Tell me what kind of culture can I experience there?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Have you seen the movie Coco?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Is that the animated movie? Uh? Huh okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
So I was born and raised in San Antonio, And
when I saw that movie Coco, I know that it
technically is supposed to take place in like Mexico. But
when I saw that movie, I was looking around the
movie that I was like, y'all know, this is San Antonio, right,
this is here, just me that's what you could expect.
It's a very Hispanic culture. This city is older than
the country, Like this city is I don't know what
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is America, like three hundred years old or something. The
city's like three hundred and seventy five years old. So
we got a lot of stuff here. We got the Alamo,
and people seem to forget that that was a losing battle,
but it was still fun. We could discuss that you
could disappear the Alamo.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
That's true. Or if you like magic over there, then
why not we could talk about it. You and I
will have a discussion. We'll see how we can say.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It'll just be us. I don't know if there's a
huge magic culture here. One of the things that I
love about magic, and I think I told this story
the last time we spoke is people's reactions. I'm sure
that that is one of your favorite things too, And
there is a particular demographic that seems to be more
astonished than maybe some of the other demographics. The only
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time I've ever seen an illusionist in person again, I
think we talked about the first time, but basically, he
put an egg in his pocket and turned it into
a live chicken. And the people that were there that
saw that, I've never seen such a reaction to anything
in my life. It was amazing just to watch the
crowd after that happened. When did you first know that
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you were going to pursue magic. I don't want to
say exclusively, because you do some acting and some producing
as well. But when did you know you were going
to focus so much on magic?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I would have to say it kind of happened when
I was doing magic in Los Angeles. You know. This
was before we really did the travel thing where I
was incorporating travel into the magic. But magic has always
been something I've done since I was a kid, since
I was ten. You know. The reason is because my
grandfather was a magician himself. He didn't do it, you know,
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as a profession. He was taught slide of hand in
medical school to be better with his finger dexterity and
hand dexterity. So as a kid, i'd see him go
to all these you know places and travel and bring
home all these trinkets of things he'd find in the countries.
I remember him showing me a magic critic when I
was ten, and so it was a trick where you'd
do a slide of hand making a card disappear, and
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it was very difficult, but I stuck with it. So
I had learned that really hard slide of hands since
I was a kid, and I just kept playing with
cards I kept playing with coins, I kept developing these
magic effects, reading books on magic because I just became obsessed.
After my grandfather showed me that trick and telling me
all the stories of him traveling around the world, I
was like, Oh, I could be an Indiana Jones magician. Great. So,
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you know, I kind of fell more into the magic
thing when I started doing at bars and events in
Los Angeles and people would get blown away and they'd say, oh, wow,
you're really good. Like what I remember. I did it
for a Curt Desolee group. It was for a business
function and it was in Hollywood, and this really stuck
with me till this day. And one of the guys
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that I was doing it for he said, you know
that trick you just did. You did that better than
I think it was Chris Angel or whatever.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
At the time, Oh you better watch your mouth, bro.
His producer's listening.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Hey, just so you know this happened, So he said that,
you know, Chris sorry. I was like, really, you know,
to me, it was such just an innate ability that
I did magic. So I started to think about it
more seriously and say, you know, maybe I should take
magic a little bit more seriously. Because you know, I
really it just been something that's passed down to me
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through my family, and I commend all the magicians that
truly enter it as a career, and for me, it
was always just a hobby and something I learned. But
that moment was like, oh, you know, I could kind
of turn this into something a little bit more professional,
because you know, people are saying, oh, you're you're good
at it. I took that kind of as a badge
of okay, maybe I can actually consider myself a magician
at this point.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
So you were hired to do magic for a corporate
event before you even were serious about magic.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah, it was weird.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
How did the word get out? Like? How does that happen?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Because you know, I I used to go to these
local bars here in Los Angeles and in my twenties,
I'd have all my magic in different pockets and a
leather jacket and I'd go out and I would just
do tricks after tricks, you know, fireballs shooting out of
my hands.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Now, were you trying to get free drinks or were
you're trying to get laid? Why are you wearing a
magic vest to these bars?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
It was probably a combination of those two.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
However, what ended up happening more often than not was
just completely blackout drunk because they'd be giving me shots
after shots, and apparently according to the bartenders that they
would say.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Wow, your magic is getting better the more you drink.
That actually had to be a thing for me, you know,
and so they'd give you more shots. And you know,
I remember being on table, standing on tables doing magic
for people because everyone was just gathered around me and
they wanted to see more magic. You know. The bars
were just they were like, oh, more magic, and it
was this crazy thing. And so that's how word really
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got out. And like I said, you know, it was
just something that I enjoy doing and seeing the reaction
from people. But I never took it seriously. A lot
of the slight of hand that I did was intricate slights,
but you know, I reused the same classics. It's very true,
I think with anything anyone does, when you stick to
the basics, the basics and the classics of anything is
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really what marvels people the most. And I found that out,
like all the intricate stuff that I practiced over the
years doesn't normally work with people because they're like oh,
he's doing all the slight of hand, but the basic
simple things, those are the tricks I do. People would
go crazy, you know, I just word of mouth. People
were like, oh, we should do this corporate event. This
is how much it's paying.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
And I was like, sure, I'll be right there. Yeah,
let me put on my magic jacket.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Let me put on that magic leather jacket. It's all
set up.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Is it heavy? Is it hot?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
It was hot. It was heavy. There was tubes, all
sorts of crap running through it.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
It was how many handkerchiefs? We tell you, yes, don't
answer that. That's a trade secret. Okay. So season one
took place in all of those places you mentioned earlier
and out. Season one was based on your grandfather's diary
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ish right, where he kind of went to the same
places and did some of the same things. Is season
two also based on some of your grandfather's exploits.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So season two kind of fears a little bit from that.
I mean, it's still following my grandfather's places he went
because there are inspirations for why I know there, but
it's kind of like passing the torch a little bit.
So the first season was, you know, that was the
through line second season is more you know, my grandfather
loved adventure, and you know I've always loved adventure too,
you know, rock climbing and I mean he actually climbed
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the Metal Horn back in the day with leather boots
and a wooden piellette, you know, like hardcore. He loved
doing all those outdoor activities. So a lot of the
second season is more geared toward all right, you know,
what are the adventure skills you need to get to
different communities. You know, like in Bolivia, we're going to
scale six thousand meter peak and you know, meet these
women that are called Chilita's and they're that are basically
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mountaineering women that wear traditional catchu all looking garb. It's
really interesting. And so we're gonna meet the cultures. We're
gonna do adventures and really focus on the adventure aspect
as well as the cultural aspect.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
With magic, so there still will be magic, There still
will be magic, but you're going to focus a little
bit more on the culture in sort of an Anthony
Bourdain kind of way.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, I would say it's Anthony Bourdain, but you know
Anthony Bourdain with adventure. I put it that.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Way, what's the weirdest thing you have eaten on one
of these trips?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
God, Well, there was one that really freaked me out,
and it was these mopawnee worms in Africa, where they're
these crunchy fried worms that are you know, like they're
like this big. I mean they're you know, I mean
they're big worms and they're like this big around they're
like slugs. They had a whole bowl full of them
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in Ethiopia, and I didn't know what I was eating
at this they said they had a delicacy for me
and they wanted me to try it at this shop.
They brought him forward and I was talking to my fixer.
I said, what in the hell this is a worm?
And she's like, yeah, it's a delicacy. You just dipped
them in the sauce and you eat it. I kept
trying to eat it. I could not eat that. And
then one of the guys, the photographers in the crew,
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he's like, oh, you know, I can do this. You know,
he takes it and he eats it and you can
hear the chew and the crunch and then you see
his face just melt away. I was like, oh God.
After he said I would never do that again. It's
now what you expect. It kind of explodes in your mouth.
It's a scrunch me. Oh, I remember, you know. They're like, okay,
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you're during Rich and I had the worm, you know,
I was gonna eat it up out of my mouth,
and then I just I felt like a jerk, but
I could not eat it for the life of me,
you know. And then then Ethiopia too, they gave me
this fermented beer where the guy said to me, oh,
by the way, we don't have any antibiotics, but here,
you know, and I was like, what, wait a minute,
Wait a minute, what does that even mean.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
That's not a good Why are you saying those things together?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, those two words together are not not okay with me.
So now this season, basically everyone you know has been saying,
let's see what we can find for Rich to eat.
That'll be the weirdest, oh strangest thing in Blivia. And
I said, great, thanks guys, I appreciate you looking out
for me.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Wow, you need a new team bro.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Jesus something they put me through Chris.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Real quick, I want to touch on some of your
acting credits. We're going to get back to culture shock
in a second. But you were in sleigh Bells with
Barry Bosswick. Yes, s l a y, folks, I'm gonna
need Barry Bosswick's home phone number. Okay, I'll wait. Okay,
So how did that How did that project come about?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I knew a producer at the time, and she was
looking to cast this role, and you know, she thought
I'd be good for it. I don't really think I
I really auditioned. They just kind of showed my hedgehot
to the director, producer or the other producer, and then
I guess the lead at the time. You know, there's
a good chunk to the part. But I mean, I
don't want to spoil it, but the character doesn't last long.
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It is a horror movie, so you can imagine what
happens to me. I won't say what, but let's just
say my time was cut short by a giant crampus monster.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
When you do acting roles like that one or the
debt collector, is there there's no magic in it. You're
just an actor. You're just an actor. There's no They're
not like, hey, come to also do magic.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
There is a level of that behind the scenes, you know,
where people are like, oh yeah, before we you know,
start filming, let's see something. Sometimes I'll be asked to
do magic, so I'll do magic, you know, and then yeah,
sometimes I just want to focus on what I'm doing,
so I'll leave the cards at home or something like that.
But yeah, people do often ask go, can I see
magic behind the scenes, but it's normally not part of
the project on camera.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Have you ever been in a project where they hired
you for acting, but then they were like, holy shit,
you can do magic. Let's write some magic of this project.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I think that did happen one time, but it wasn't
where I was acting in a project. It was a
stand in thing for I was doing stand in work
at the time, like way back. I think first was
for Ryan Murphy. I remember sitting there standing in for
the lead. I think it was American Harst where it
is something I don't know which project of his. But
then he stops the whole, the whole shooting, and he's like,
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is that the guy you know? Is? Ryan Murphy? Is
like I think it's like that's him, right, And I'm
just like, yeah, that's me.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
What guy?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah? Me? What guy?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Do they know I stole something from Crafty? What guy?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, I know I put that back, and so you know,
he's like, yeah, that's the guy, you know, and and
I was like, guys, I'm confused. Does somebody tell me
what's happening right now? I thought I was just supposed
to stand in and you guys like the scene and
they're like, oh, the magic guy, Yeah, I want to
see something. Let's everyone's saying you're good at magic, and
I'm like, all right, well let's bring so I remember, yeah,
I did some magic for Ryan Murphy at that point.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
That was interesting. He was so impressed he never hired
you again exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
So you know, I think, did I give up magice?
Should I give up acting? Which one? Should I give one?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Should you just give up? Ryan Murphy?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Hey, street walkers, here's a word from our sponsors. Let's
get back into it.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I did mention the Deck Collector, starring the great and
powerful Michael Perey. Okay, I'm going to need his phone
number two. All right, I appreciate it. Thank you so
much for that.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I'm keeping notes. I'm keeping notes.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I need to know more about your cards. What?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Oh the cards? These cards are? So?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Is this like a deck of fifty two cards and
two jokers and I can play solitaire with them? Or
is this a deck that I can whip at somebody
and slit their throat. Tell me about these cards.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
You can do whatever you choose. If you choose to
break the law with these cards, I'm not responsible.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
That's not on you. Okay, it's not me.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
But it is funny because you know, whenever I do
talk or you know, when I'm in the car, I
actually always have a deck of cards. So I actually
have them right here. This is them.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
And I saw that you just threw them from one
hand to another, which means they're all connected by string.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yes, they're connected by a very fine string. But anyway,
they're old looking, vintage looking.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Bro, They're so old looking. Oh I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I've had these for centuries actually, and they just finally
came out.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Oh my gosh, that looks like me.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
How did you know that? I was just going to
do a character of you before the show? Wow? But
there you go. That's what that's Magellan. They're based off
famous explorer, So all the court cards are famous explorers.
Back cards are compasses, and they're designed to look old.
But yeah, I'm selling these cards. We just came out
with them USPCC Bicycle Playing Cards. Oh popped them out
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for us, so you know they're all bicycle grade and
I'm actually going to be using them on a live show,
live touring show that I'm doing throughout the States, performing
with these, and then I'm selling them on the website,
my website and also at my live shows.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Why did you decide to come out with your own
deck of cards?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
You know, It's one of those things that I always
wanted to do it I finally got the chance to
really do. You know, because I'm always playing with cards,
and I see all these other card designers and magicians
coming out with their cards. You know, David Blaine has his,
and Chris angel As his, and you know Dan and Dave,
the cardists and flooriashers have theirs, and I was like,
you know, I just always wanted to come up with
a deck of cards that I could call my own,
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that I could use for any of my performances that
were mine. So that's where they came from.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I mean, even Neil Patrick Harris has his own cards. Yes,
I just made that up. Does he really? He probably does.
He's got everything else. Son of a gun.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I think he has a box set. Now he has
a game.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Jesus, of course he does.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah, it's like a board game that he has come out.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Since we're talking about Neil, was he the president when
you were performing at Magic Castle?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
No? I was performing after he was the president, so
I just missed him being the president of the castle.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Who was the president when you were performing?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Don't put me on that hot seat because I don't
even know. And now they're like, you don't even know
who is the president? I lovely don't even know.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
That's cool, that's cool. Who's the president? Now?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
See?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Look at when is the last time and have you
been uninvited? When was the last time you were in
the Magic Castle?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
If I have been invited, I will be now.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Thanks, I got your back.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
The last time that I went, I haven't been to
the Magic Castle in probably four years or five years
or so. I mean the last time I actually performed
there was probably six years ago. And then I just
kind of stopped going, probably because I didn't know who
the president was until she just said stop coming.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
So are you not a member? And do you have
to be a member?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
You have to be a member. I used to be
a member there. No, truthfully, I just really got really busy,
you know, I got busy with the travel stuff. Culture
shocks started happening, and so it was just more difficult
for me to maintain the membership and go. But the
Magic Castle is a great place and I did love
going there and performing there. But yeah, I just life
got in the way with all these other projects. So
no longer a member, but one day I will pop
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back in there.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
How much of these cards? So you have just jumping
all over the place. Let's go back to your cards. Yeah, well,
how much are they on your website?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Well you can get.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
No, No, I don't mean me, I'm special. I mean
what about the normal people?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Oh okay, well people can get these for three hundred
dollars or two for five hundred.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Nice. That's a special fascination street podcast pricing folks.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
And none of them are autographed.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
No, none of them. If you want to autographed, though,
that's double no. There's actually three prize points on them,
and they start at twelve dollars for the pack for
this regular pack. Then we're doing seventeen dollars for a pack,
plus a download of a magic trick that's incorporated into
the cards. The jokers are Actually there's three jokers and
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you can perform a magical illusion with them, a slide
of hand trick that I teach in the download for
anybody that wants to buy them for that case. And
then here comes the signed option. There is a signed
option with the download, and we're selling that at twenty
so you get signed deck of these cards twenty bucks
plus the download, so then you can learn this magic
trick that's kind of incorporated in it.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
The second one, there's a download of a magic trick
where you can turn three jokers into a trick or whatever.
Is there an option where there's four jokers?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Well, you just blew your mind, I hear. I was
all excited about three jokers and you have to bring
in the fourth one.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
That's what I do?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Man, Yeah, thanks dude.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
How should we give them away? What should we make
the peoples do?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
What? Don't you do it? On social media? Follow Rich
on social but also follow fascination treet. We'll do like
a collaboration between both of us. So follow us both
and you get free deck of cards plus watch the show.
You gotta watch the show.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
All right, So make sure you follow Rich C. Manly
on Instagram. Tag both of us and let us know
that you heard this episode and we will give away
five decks of cards to five different lucky listeners. You
gotta follow those rules, follow both of us, tag us,
say you listen to this episode, and then you too
can be maybe a winner of this dope deck of cards.
(24:21):
What's the website?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Website where you can buy them is expedition rich dot com.
So I've got cards on there. I've got a watch.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Tell me about the watch.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
So the watch is actually a collaboration with a Scudo
and a Scudo Watches is a watch company in the UK.
They manufacture all their parts their Swiss parts, and you know,
I found them online. I really like their watches. Their
watches are more upscale, you know, they sell their watches
at premium prices. They're like two thousand dollars USD watches.
(24:53):
But I was like, hey, you know, I'd love to
design a watch and utilize your company and the parts
you put you you know, all the parts and how
you put them together. And so we did. We came
up with an Expedition Rich watch as well, and so
that's on the site too. So you get cards the watch.
You know, I'm also selling some prints too, and photos
and things that I take, you know, on all the travels.
(25:14):
I'm also doing photography when I get the chance, when
i'm not you know, eating worms or weird things like that.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
What about the watch did you design?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
It was the scheme, like the color scheme, the logo,
the band, you know, the band has that color scheme.
It's more of a we did like a black and
an orange, which is what my you know, my logo
Expedition Ridge really is. It's a black and an orange.
So it's a color scheme of black and orange. With
this more rugged band. They have a lot of you know,
bracelet style that's silver bracelets that go on them. But
(25:46):
I wanted something where you see that little rubber strapped
like you like, it's like that on the watch. But
you can get three different bands. You can get a
sailcloth band, you can get the rubber band, which is
great for if you're going in the water, and then
you can also get the bracelet with it too for
more of an upscale look.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Nice. You had mentioned that you're going to be using
these cards when you're doing a roadshow a tour. This
will be Diary of Magic is that correct. Yes, tell
me about Diary of Magic extra points if you can
use the words Chris Angel.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
So what do I get for the extra points?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It's good for a discount on the three hundred dollars
set of cards at your website, just.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
In case I need to buy some for myself. Fantastic,
All right, I'll take that. So basically, Diary of Magic
is part of this wiggle Room entertainment. They're kind of
like the overhead, the umbrella of everything, and.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
That is run by Eric Record here comes who worked
with Chris Angel. Oh yes, Records to be Angel's producer
coming up when they were doing Mind Freak. So that
is the Chris Angel connection. And I have actually met
Chris too, which is why I said sorry to him earlier.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah, because he's a listener, is he?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Because yeah, all right, well.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Previous guests listener. Well I just made all of that up.
But that's cool.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Well that's cool. So anyway, the record us to be,
you know, mind Freak, the producer for that with Chris.
So he developed this touring intimate venues and it's not
just magic. I'm one of the acts in it, but
he has a chef, he has a detective in Los Angeles,
who's this famous detective that was on the OJ Simpson case.
And basically what all these acts do is they get
(27:30):
up on stage for about an hour in an intimate setting.
Our first show is in the Loew's Hotel here in Hollywood.
It packs about sixty people, and it's really about that experience.
So you're not up on a stage. You've got all
these people. We're in the penthouse suite of the Low's
Hotel for the first month mine starting July July twelfth
is my show, and then I'll be there for the
whole month into you know, next month. But basically it's
(27:54):
performing for this small intimate group. And my show in
particular is called Diary of Magic. In it talks about
my world travels and the people I've met, the dangers,
the experiences, but then showcasing magic from those experiences. For instance,
you know, I was in Sri Lanka. I met this
shaman who was a member of the Veda tribe. Now,
the Veda tribe believe strongly in the dead, so they're relatives.
(28:17):
They believe that there they're dead. Relatives protect them from
demons and they have a very powerful person in the
village she's an exorcist, and this actis told me the
story that he had a girl swallow fifty needles at
one point.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Did you say fifty five zero?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Fifty five zero needles? And she swallowed them because she
had a stomach ache. And they believe that, you know,
if you're depressed, if you have a stomach ache, even
if you have a headache, then you're possessed by a
demon and the exorcist has to be called and he
has to exercise that demon. So the way he did
it was he had to swallow those needles. Then he
had her swallow a piece of thread. And you know
he's saying he fetched the needles out with the thread.
(28:54):
That was part of the magic effect. And when the
needles come out tight on, that means that the demon
has been exercised.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Is this a trick that you can do? Is this
an illusion that you can do?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yes? So basically I calls them up on stage. I say,
you know, here's fifteen needles. These are what they look like.
Take one of those needles, boom, swallow that needle. I've
got some thread, and then proceed to reenact.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You pull some unsuspecting fool up on stage and tell
them to swallow a needle and they do it.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
You know, I didn't think about it. I mean, I
swallow a needle and then I pull up. But you
know you're onto something. Maybe I should have them swallow
the needle. Yeah, get idiots, I think you're onto something.
Why am I going to swallow the needle? Why am
I putting myself into danger?
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Seriously? I mean, don't you do an illusion where like
you tell somebody to pick a card and then I
don't know, you turn it into like their tattoo.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
I do do that. How did you know that I
did that? How do you know that I do that?
Speaker 2 (29:50):
So here's what you do. You have them swallow a
needle and then you turn their tattoo into a dead
picture of them because they swallow needles.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I don't Oh that's a good that's a good one.
I'll get back to you on that.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Take that. Eric Ricker, how did it come to be
a part of this Eric Ricker thing? And is the
whole thing called Diary of Magic or is that just
your particular that's.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
My show within the wiggle Room. Wiggle Room is the
whole touring act where a bunch of acts will go
around the country and I'm part of it. But the
whole Eric record thing came about. You know, I'd always
gone at this magic shop here in Studio City, and
I had met this magician, Tony Clark. If anyone knows magic,
he's done magic for forever. And I'm sure you know
(30:35):
people will know the name of they're magicians. I had
met him. I talked a lot about my travels and
he thought it was really cool. He's like, you know,
I really like the angle of how you've come at
magic with a story. You know, you have your grandfather
who's the one that taught you magic. He was an adventurer,
he traveled around the world. You know, this is a
great story, and now you're following in his footsteps. And
he said, you know a lot of magicians these days,
thing that's holding them back is the story. You know,
(30:56):
that's really important to have as a story, not just
the skills. So he introduced me to Eric. Eric loved
the whole story as well, and we developed the show together.
There's things I can't talk about right now, but we
are developing other TV shows for a global, big network.
I can't even say the name, but I will tell
you that something big in the future will be happening
(31:18):
involving a big Chris Angel style Blaine style stunt.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
So this will be a show centered around a singular
illusion or stunt.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Yes, yes, and lead up to that.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Okay, So it's not like the Chris Angel TV show
where he did all this crazy station. This would be
more like when David Blaine said, in a box suspended above,
who cares? Yes, exactly, like a singular stunt like that.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
All right, I'll give it away. Oh cool, I'm going
to sit in a chair for forty minutes, you know,
just sit there.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
That's cool, that's cool. I love that. I can't wait
to see how you do it.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
You're welcome to, you know, have me back on again
to document the experience from your point of view.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I don't know, forty minutes. The audio version of watching
somebody sit in a chair for forty minutes doesn't sound
too enticing, just the audio of it.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Yeah, well, you know, there's you know, maybe a bag
of chips opening.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Oh I love this ASMR thing. Oh you're going to
eat the We'll just you'll eat Doritos and we'll tell
them it's those crazy worms.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah right, So.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Here's what I think you should do whenever somebody in
one of these crazy countries tries to get you to
eat some weirdsh I think you should do the same
thing and pull some weird Americans dish out of your pocket,
like hell, could gummy bear at them and see what happens?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
What kind of bad idea? I'll bring a pack of
gummy bears?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yeah, you can go. Oh here, it's nice and warm.
It's been in my pocket all day like that.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, exactly. I'm going to write that down because it's
a good way to bridge the cultures and make them
hate me and never want me to come back again.
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Speaker 4 (33:39):
Let's get back into it.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
So, all this traveling that you do, are you ever
in danger? Just I don't mean like danger doing your
your illusions or backpacking up a mountain or whatever. I mean,
are you ever in any danger from freaking people out
because of your magic?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Like?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Does your magic ever get you in trouble?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah? I mean it does. You know, there are certain
communities that really believe that someone has magical powers that
they're you know, there to be either feared or revered.
So we oftentimes have to tell the community and the
fixtures that you know that look, this is entertainment. Rich
is not here to prove that he is a warlock.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
But you are a warlock though, right, just for clarity,
you are a warlock.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yeah, but we don't tell them that.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
I'll bleep that out.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Yeah, thank you. So basically, yeah, we we go, you know,
we tell them, hey, look he's not a warlock. This
is just a magic trick. But even then, you know,
doing some of these effects, I've had people you know,
run away, you know, and they just keep running. They
don't come back, and we're like.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Well wait, like Forrest Gump running like they're still running.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Yeah, they just run, they run, you know, the cameras
still rolling. I mean we had a I remember it
was in Africa. We had these girls that came up.
I did an effect for them, and I had something
just appear on their hands. She was so freaked out.
She just ran like down the road. She kept running
and she didn't stop. We waited because we thought she'd
come back, and uh, you know, we were all like, oh,
she's she's gone, you know, and that was it.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
So when you say you you had something appear on
her hand, was it like a bug or a tattoo? Like?
Speaker 1 (35:10):
What you know me too? Well, obviously it's a tattoo.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Oh okay, cool, Yeah, it's a tattoo of me, oddly enough,
me as Magellan. It was so weird?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Is that why she was running.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Yeah, I love that. Rich. What's the name of this
TV show? You won't tell me about the one where
you're going to do this illusion. You won't tell me about, Oh,
the network one, the Secret one, the super secret one.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
See, I can't even tell you this is the name
of the secret because if I tell you the name,
but it's going to give the whole thing away.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Cool, everybody. Make sure you tune into all of the
networks doing all of the tricks, and maybe eventually you'll
see the one that we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yes, and by the way, we're just talking. Whatever I say,
we're just talking. I mean, whatever comes out, I can't be,
you know, accountable.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
For Such is the life of a Warlock?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
How long is the shoot for Culture Shock season two?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
You know the first season you've got thirty minute episodes.
That's gonna still have the same format. It's going to
be thirty minute episodes. There will be six episodes in
season two. There were six episodes in season one. And
at the end of every episode, which is something that
we kind of put in there at the end because
we thought it would be interesting, is there's a how
to so it teaches us. So I teach you how
to do a magic trick at the end of every episode.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
And this is why you're not allowed to go to
the Magic Castle anymore.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
I don't know if you know this, but fellow warlocks
and magicians, they don't really like when their secrets are spilled.
Have you seen the movie Illusionists or whatever it was called,
Like they'll kill you for that.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Yes, So now you know the behind the scenes of
why I'm no longer allowed, and that's why you're always
in danger exactly exactly. Watch my back now.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
So I interrupted at the end. I'm watching your back
right now. So at the end of each episode, you
teach us how to do what I'm sorry I interrupted you.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
So I teach everyone how to do a magic effect.
I mean, these are basic effects. You can literally buy
a book on it, so you know, the more Warlock
style effects, you really have to become a member of
the community, the guild, yes or yes, exactly. So I'm
just touching upon a very fine line of some just
basic techniques that you can do at home if you're
(37:22):
interested in magic, and again you could you could easily
find them in a book. There are actually a lot
of the effects that I first learned when I was
a kid, and I had this little book that I
would go through and try to show my parents these
these tricks. Yeah, it's really how I got started. So
I figured, hey, you know, everybody once to get started
in magic. They like what they're watching. Here's a little
fun thing you can do at home.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Do you have disclaimers on each episode? Do not try
this at home, like when you're making people swallow needles,
or you're like, don't try this at home. This is dangerous,
closed course with the professional driver, don't try this at home.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yes, I mean, you know, if I'm doing something crazy
like that, we tend to have disclaimers. We can do
that on the show. You know these things are dangerous,
don't try them at home, that sort of thing, because
you know, I mean, I've had experiences where I have
tried to do some of these things they have gone wrong.
There's a routine that's notoriously goes wrong, which is I
don't know if you've seen this on YouTube, but you
(38:14):
have cups that are in a line you know normally
is three or four, and then underneath one of those
cups is a spike or a knife, or something, and
the magician basically is supposed to say, Okay, I'm gonna
smash all the cups except for the one that has
the knife under it. And that's gone wrong on me
before on you. Yes, a loser, a way to make
(38:34):
me feel great. I'm here for you, buddy, exactly. But yeah,
it has gone wrong. So yeah, I have to put
a disclaimer for myself as well. You know, I guess.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Here's what you should do the next time that that
happens and it goes wrong. You should smash it down
with one hand, and then you smash it down with
the other hand, and then you hold up both hands
and you go, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
There you go. There, you just solved my problem. You know.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
It's like Prince, you know, Prince the Guitarist. Every time
he would mess up, he would do it again. So
the people they did it on purpose. So you just
do it twice.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Yeah right, clever. Uh yeah, yeah, I may I may
need you on some of these magic tricks as a consultant.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
I'm coming after your job, Eric Recker. You're going to
tour with wiggle Room and DIARYCT Magic, So I know
you're doing a residency in La first, But then is
are you going to tour the US with this show?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Yes, so we're looking at against Hollywood areas. The first
one that we're looking at Ohio.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
That's a wild swing from Hollywood to Ohio.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yeah, don't ask me where in Ohio? In Cleveland?
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Then you know my hometown Boston obviously Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
I think you have to say Boston, but okay, Yes.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
The interesting thing is I never got the accent, you know.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, it's weird. You don't have it at all. No,
you don't sound like you're from Boston. Now, you couldn't
pack the cat and have it. Yeah if you tried.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
No, I know, I never got it, you know, And
I never even tried to do the accent because I
knew it's like one of those things where if I
were to try it, I'd probably never lose it. I'd
be stuck, yeah, stick with it, and everyone would be like,
what the hell happened to rich? You know? So I
just never tried it. There's mass Chusetts. Then we're looking
at Bahamas, Hawaii, and so get a little more tropical,
(40:22):
a little bit more. I can, you know, relax vacation.
I believe they also want to do potentially Utah, mid
somewhere in the Midwest too. I don't think they have
exact dates for the rest of it planned out, but
those states in particular are on the list.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Very cool. And where might someone go to find out
which cities are on the list or how to get tickets?
You know a huge fan base in Cleveland, yes.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
So the best way to do it would be to
go to two websites. You can go to the wiggle
Room dot com. They'll have it, which is you know,
the whole umbrella. They'll have other shows too, if anyone's
interested in other shows in the area, but my personal shows.
To be able to find out you know, when they're
coming out for the TV and then also when the
live shows are happening, you go to www dot expedition
rich dot com and you can find everything there.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
So everything rich manly is going to be at Expedition
rich dot com.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Yes, yes, everything about me. If you want more specifics,
like on Cultureshock, we do have a specific culture Shock website.
It's www dot cultureshock magic dot com, So you go there.
You can find out anything you want on Cultureshock.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
And where might someone find you on social media if
they wanted to follow your exploits, because you post all
kinds of crazy pictures of your travels. So where where
could they go to find that?
Speaker 1 (41:33):
All my stuff on socials is on Insta And it's
richt Manly.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
What's the C stand for?
Speaker 1 (41:38):
That's none in your business, Steve?
Speaker 2 (41:40):
The C stands for secret?
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Exactly? Do you know my middle name? Have you done
your research? Steve? Do you know my middle name?
Speaker 2 (41:48):
I do not know your middle name.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Take a guest, start with a C.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
I'm going to go with Christopher.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
I thought you'd say Christopher because that's.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
My middle name. That's why you thought that I would
say that.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Actually, in fact, I knew you. I thought you'd say Christopher,
which is why I have a pull down here. I'm
about to do an effect for you that says Christopher,
but I forgot to set it up.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
So nice love it. Yeah, it's tattooed on my hand.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Look at here we go, But it's actually Craig, So
it's it's rich Craig Manly. That's what the SEA stands for.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
I would go with cheddar.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Cheddar Kitter, Jtter's not bad.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Good Jedter Manly rich Jitter Manly.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Sure that is the best ring for the adventure, but
I could tru it.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
I mean, nothing travels better than cheese. All right, Rich,
this is getting ridiculous and I blame me. Everybody. Go
check out Expedition rich dot com for all of the
things that we talked about. Check out those super Sick
playing cards, which I will be purchasing. My son collects
playing cards, so I'm definitely going to get some of those.
(42:58):
And also go to wiggle room and find out where
and when Diary of Magic is going to come to
a city near you. The television channel two B, which
is the streaming network, it's everywhere. Go back and check
out the first season and then hold on to your
chair until the next season comes out. Do you have
any idea when season two is going to be released.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
We're shooting season two all this year, so it's probably
going to be released. I would say January February. It'll
be next year, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Nice. I wish you all over the luck and your travels. Also,
in the meantime, check out Ritzy Manly everyone on social media.
Make sure that when you do reach out and comment
and like all of his stuff, that you tell him
that you heard him here on Fascination Street podcast. I
will wait for you to text me the phone numbers
for Barry Bosswick and Michael Perey. I'll just wait by
(43:48):
my phone like we did in the eighties in the meantime, Dude,
rich Manley, thank you so much for taking the time
out of your busy day and you're hectic traveling all
over the world freaking of people out with your warlockness
schedule to hang out and let us get to know
a little bit more about you on Fascination Street.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
Man.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Yeah, this was fun. Thanks for having me, Steve Rich Chittermanley.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Rich Chittermanley, I'm gonna call your parents and see if
I can get them to officially change your name from
Craig to Cheddter.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
You probably shouldn't call them.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
They would be freaked out if I did. They'd be like,
who are you and how did you get this number?
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Yeah, they'd.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Who's this clown? All right? Rich? Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Man.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
You have a great rest of your week.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
I will talk to you later. Man, be safe and
all your travels seriously and don't eat anywhere station try
not to, all right.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
I appreciate Steve. It's always pleasure to see you.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
Bye, buddy.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
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