After performing magic for over 35 years, I often choose not to watch it in my leisure time on television, etc. To be truthful, so many modern magicians performances just bore me. Or maybe I have just seen too much over my years…<\/p>\n
But when a performer (both a respected actor & magician) of the top caliber of Ricky Jay<\/a> was on the Late Show With David Letterman<\/a> recently, I sit up, take notice and absorb every moment. More magicians should do the same and pay attention to what he has to say about the current state of our art & craft!<\/p>\n This particular segment aired on the show on Friday, April 26, 2013.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6EYiPkOgEOM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After performing magic for over 35 years, I often choose not to watch it in my leisure time…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[38,52,31,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-other-magicians","7":"tag-blog","8":"tag-david-letterman","9":"tag-other-magicians-2","10":"tag-ricky-jay"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}