An Honest Liar Page #10

In entertainment, there is a kind of acceptability to deceive.

It's like when there are two Picasso paintings on the wall.

One is a fake, and the other one is real,

but they look the same.

There's no harm in that.

At the end of the day, there's nothing to reveal.

Because what I do is real.

What you do is real.

I think I slept last night. Some part of it, anyway.

Today, officially, we'll find out what the judge has to say.

It's got to be the right thing.

Or I don't know what I'm going to do, or what...

..what Jose is going to do.

He's specifically an immigration judge,

and he apparently likes to...

..suggest removal.

That would be the end of him.

The end of him and the end of us, automatically.

His life literally hangs in the balance.

And I feel somehow that

I've got to come out with some rabbit-out-of-the-hat

to try to get him back here where he belongs

and not behind bars.

I was just in a state of total suspension,

you know, just waiting for him to say what the sentence was.

It was something I had hoped for, that we'd all hoped for.

We won.

We won this one.

People were really beautiful talking.

I'm not really sure how I feel, but I'm feeling very, uh...

..thankful. That's how I feel, very thankful.

I'm not one person, I've got a partner.

For the last quarter of a century, I've had this partner.

We're one element.

And I have never hesitated to reach out to help him

in every possible way.

I know Randi.

He has a mission out there in the world,

as The Amazing Randi. But his compassion...

People don't know how much he cares when he sees someone in distress.

And it's not just on a social level

but also on a personal level.

And I include myself specifically in that equation,

that he...

he will do what is necessary to save somebody.

Don't worry about it, yeah.

- Here?

- Yeah. No, a little bit further, over here.

- Here? OK.

- OK...

- OK.

- Great.

What do you think? No? Yeah?

Randi said years ago,

"There is nothing that a man can make that I can't get out of."

That line is actually a Houdini line.

And the difference was that Houdini, you know,

if someone ever did bring something,

like a pair of handcuffs that no way he could get out,

Houdini's guys, his goons, would take the guy out back

and beat the crap out of the guy

and the audience never saw the guy again.

But I bet you anything,

Randi truly believed there was nothing he couldn't get out of.

Or make it at least seem like he was getting out of them.

And I'll quote him directly.

"I'm a magician.

"I know how to deceive people,

"and I know how to recognise when people are being deceived.

"I can cheat you countless different ways and you won't know.

"You won't catch me."

Some people cannot believe that

a magician can fool them in such a way that they can't figure it out.

But magicians can and magicians do.

Don't be too sure of yourself.

No matter how smart or well educated you are, you can be deceived.

MUSIC:
The Magic Touch by The Platters

# You've got the magic touch

# It makes me glow so much... #

OK, that's weird. This is all that I'm getting.

I have no clue what this is.

# It casts a spell, it rings a bell, the magic touch

# Oh, when I feel your charm

# It's like a four alarm... #

My jewellery are a catalyst to the powers of your mind.

- Yes.

- It's all in the mind.

# You've got the magic touch

# Here I go reeling

# Oh, I'm feeling the glow

# But where can I go from you?

# I didn't know too much

# And then I felt your touch

# And now I've learned

# I can return

# The magic touch. #

APPLAUSE:

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