YOU SPENT TIME WITH DAVID COPPERFIELD , HOW DID THAT COME TO BE AND WHAT DID YOU DO FOR HIM ?
That ’ s true , it was all through Chris Kenner , who I spent most of my time with . In August , and I am completely blanking on the year , I was in Vegas for my best friend ’ s bachelor party and through some crazy circumstances , Chris brought me back to the warehouse to see a few things . This was the first time I ’ d been to the warehouse . It just so happened that they had a few pieces of the Christian Fechner Collection in a special room at the time . This was before it was all styled like it is now . There was the Patisserie and Orange Tree of M . Robert-Houdin . I asked if I could take a look and try to make it work , and Chris said yes !
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It was a dream come true . So I opened the back up and got it working : the pastry chef popping out the front door , and his wife coming to take the order , the clock swinging open and the little automatons rolling out dough . While this is happening , Chris is on a call and it ’ s like 2 in the morning . I swear he never stops working . So , while he ’ s on this call he ’ s watching the Robert-Houdin trick come to life and he just drops the call . “ I gotta call you back .” In all fairness , I wasn ’ t exactly presenting it with classic patter ; it was really funny . So he asks to see it again . I made all the things happen and that was it !
We hung out a lot and showed what we
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