what’s this with escaped artists I never
was as enchanted by that as others have
been when you talk about escape artists
you’re really talking about Houdini and
then a lot of knockoffs after Houdini in
the early 20th century a man born in
Budapest who claimed to be born in
Appleton Wisconsin which is about all
you need to know that tells the whole
story takes a straitjacket and says as
his tagline I defy the jails of the
world to hold me the early part of the
20th century and then hangs upside down
in a straitjacket way up high over a sea
of people in Times Square many of whom
are immigrants and this man self-made
man by any definition you want casts off
the chains of anything that any
corporation or government put on him
getting little deep on this metaphorical
well that’s well that’s the answer
though isn’t it and you know that was an
idea of its time that was an idea of its
time as important as Bob Dylan singing
before Martin Luther King and since you
have not thought of it I mean it’s
really really very good and then other
guys come along is that I got fake cuffs
boom here we go right but that’s not
what was going on there we celebrate
Houdini because he grabbed the heart of
America in some ways he was the first
modern star is the first celebrity to
appear nearly nude in public he’s the
first celebrity to have descriptions of
his shows be more important than his
shows Houdini’s in the dictionary you
know to pull a Houdini needs to
disappear you become a verb and if we
walked out on the street right now if
you walk out there and say two people
named a magician and you ask 10 people
at least one of them and maybe seven of
them will name Houdini pretty heavy you
know it’s a hundred ears and that’s
because he was speaking for America’s
heart I mean just say to yourself again
I defy the jails of the world to hold me
that’s about as heavy as you can land
somebody huh
you
was as enchanted by that as others have
been when you talk about escape artists
you’re really talking about Houdini and
then a lot of knockoffs after Houdini in
the early 20th century a man born in
Budapest who claimed to be born in
Appleton Wisconsin which is about all
you need to know that tells the whole
story takes a straitjacket and says as
his tagline I defy the jails of the
world to hold me the early part of the
20th century and then hangs upside down
in a straitjacket way up high over a sea
of people in Times Square many of whom
are immigrants and this man self-made
man by any definition you want casts off
the chains of anything that any
corporation or government put on him
getting little deep on this metaphorical
well that’s well that’s the answer
though isn’t it and you know that was an
idea of its time that was an idea of its
time as important as Bob Dylan singing
before Martin Luther King and since you
have not thought of it I mean it’s
really really very good and then other
guys come along is that I got fake cuffs
boom here we go right but that’s not
what was going on there we celebrate
Houdini because he grabbed the heart of
America in some ways he was the first
modern star is the first celebrity to
appear nearly nude in public he’s the
first celebrity to have descriptions of
his shows be more important than his
shows Houdini’s in the dictionary you
know to pull a Houdini needs to
disappear you become a verb and if we
walked out on the street right now if
you walk out there and say two people
named a magician and you ask 10 people
at least one of them and maybe seven of
them will name Houdini pretty heavy you
know it’s a hundred ears and that’s
because he was speaking for America’s
heart I mean just say to yourself again
I defy the jails of the world to hold me
that’s about as heavy as you can land
somebody huh
you
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