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Body Language Analyst on Showing Confidence & Spotting Lies

Dropping In With Charlie Houpert

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Is David Blaine a Real Magician?

David Blaine is in the league of his own. He's a very, I don't know if he's emblematic of magicians or of the prestige style of magician where you can't tell where the trick is and where the real feat of endurance begins with him. So there are things that he does that he actually trains, like holding his breath, as he does in his live show for seven minutes. And the reason I love that is because he's not using trickery to convince us about what he does is real. It's so authentic, because he doesn't address it. He lets you try to figure it out.

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