The World's Best Card Mechanic: Richard Turner on Establishing Your Empire

[@scottlarsen2000]

Richard Turner is truly astonishing. Thank you for creating this production.

[@mikethelucky13]

Always great to see Richard, very inspirational for me in some stages of my magic life, and life in itself. Richard always will be a big influencer of some of my work. And impresses me always, even knowing is life and is work.

[@peterdelessio9274]

This was a great interview! Really appreciate the content.

[@Alberto7tube]

IN COLOR PLEASE !!! 🥰

[@daranh]

I've thought about releasing it in color (black & white is always how we do the show). I'll find some time and make that version for y'all!

[@willsjohnson]

Why is it in black and white?

[@incredible5587]

i was wondering the same thing!!!! drives me nuts i have this thing for black and white and hate it!!!! probably when i was a kid i was forced to watch black and white westerns.

[@josantosp77]

yeah, also it´s way too saturated

[@josantosp77]

the interview was great though

[@00bean00]

Maybe it was to allow us to be touched slightly by a small portion of what he experiences.

[@Alex-ny1qg]

But this has nothing to do with sticking to logic. Even the mysterious and mystical if understood turns out to be logical. Example: Richard turner a card mechanic, probably the greatest card mechanic ever. He is blind and he wasnt always blind but he gradually became completely blind. Go look him up and see how he can actually feel all the cards, he can even tell you how many cards there are in a stack of cards simply with the touch of his fingers. Now when you see him do it, you think its just a trick, then you realize he is completely blind, and then he explains how he can count the cards by touching the sids with his fingertips. It makes no sense to be able to do something like this with just your finger tips and be able to perform all sorts of tricks in this way that nobody else can who is blind, and hardly anyone else can without being blind. But here one fact people don't apply to their thought when thinking of how that makes no sense, your fingertip alone has 3000 touch receptors and yes him being blind helped him heighten his other senses and thats why he was able to do it. So suddenly when you realize that your finger tip has so many receptors it becomes more cleqr as to how he can actually do these things. And it all becomes logical while it was so mysterious, so the problem is not logic. And i dont think that this statement about logic becoming like a knife that is all blade. The forefathers of logic the Greek philosophers of antiquity they had a lot of mysterious involved, in fact they are the first and as far as i can tell the only ones who ever combined logic and religion and thus dwelling into the mysterious. How did Pythagoras knew of the sound of the planets? Everyone though he was insane when they were reading about these claims and yet today we know that our planets in the solar system have sound they emmit and thus producing the pythagorian "music of the spheres". Another one mysterious philosopher was Democritus, about 2.500 years ago he claimed that everyis made out of atoms which are invisible to the naked eye and the word atom, or atomo/άτομο in greek means "indivisible" and atoms are indeed indivisible. And their most important aspect of life was logic, for all ancient greek philosophers logic is very important and they did everything by applying their logic to things first. But logic is not the same for two people with different knowledge or different level of knowledge. This is my view on it and everyone can say all they want about logic, im just sharing my view point on how this statement is not really that smart and should be avoided, for most people will interpret it as "you should let your feeling in instead of sticking to logic" im sorry by science is all about logic and logical explanations, when we dont understand something it doesnt make sense with our current logic, but once its understood it becomes logical, so why should we not stick to logic? Perhaps someone can give a good example of not sticking to logic and intrigue me and others with it.

[@elmerfudd5650]

So, if you are blind, how do you know if you do the trick right when you were practicing all those years? There must have been someone else telling you if you got it right. Who is this person that sat beside you to tell you if you got it right while you were learning?

[@bryanfidelman3846]

While I don’t want to speak for Richard turner but as a fellow magician who also practices card tricks, a lot of the time you are practicing a sleight or a sort of manipulation needed for a trick to work in its presentation infront of a group by yourself. And you usually don’t need sight for those especially in turners case where he can use context clues to figure out if he dropped a card, flipped a card the wrong way etc.

[@mikethelucky13]

Hi! As a magician over 15 years I can tell you I can train without look to my hands and I know if I'm right. But I understand on the beginning must be harder but if you are persistent and perfectionist you get it.

[@incredible5587]

the black and white is going to kill me, its not 1950 and no reason for this, its going to annoy more people than its not. plus the card mechanic and would like to see stuff in the full. you would have many thumbs up if you fix this!!!

[@chautauquatrail]

Agreed, this would be way way more popular without the black and white filter.

[@00bean00]

Now imagine you had even less than that

[@xtreme3353]

Who cares if it's 1950 or 2024? Black and white or color??? Why does it matter. Be thankful it's up at all.