1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:02,850 - Holy (bleep), sorry. 2 00:00:03,967 --> 00:00:05,730 (crowd laughs) 3 00:00:05,730 --> 00:00:06,669 Right? 4 00:00:06,669 --> 00:00:08,000 (upbeat music) 5 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,960 - Our mission is to reintroduce full grown adults 6 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:13,660 who like to go have fun, go out, date-night style 7 00:00:13,660 --> 00:00:15,683 to professional sleight of hand. 8 00:00:17,010 --> 00:00:17,843 - I'm done. 9 00:00:17,843 --> 00:00:18,840 - Magic's real! 10 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:19,880 - I'm done magic's real. (chuckles) 11 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:22,290 Everything else is a false idol. 12 00:00:22,290 --> 00:00:23,473 Burn it down. 13 00:00:23,473 --> 00:00:26,056 (upbeat music) 14 00:00:32,620 --> 00:00:34,700 - So you first walk in to The Magic Lounge, 15 00:00:34,700 --> 00:00:36,680 and this is what you see. 16 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:40,680 It's a laundromat and you have to 17 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:42,630 find the secret entrance. 18 00:00:42,630 --> 00:00:44,880 - You're coming not just to see a magic show, 19 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:47,050 you're coming for a magical experience and if 20 00:00:47,050 --> 00:00:48,867 we just had you push open a door and say 21 00:00:48,867 --> 00:00:50,060 "I'm here for the magic show." 22 00:00:50,060 --> 00:00:53,380 We would lose that real and true guest experience of 23 00:00:53,380 --> 00:00:56,270 throwing you completely out of the moment. 24 00:00:56,270 --> 00:00:58,320 - Lint compartment must be cleaned daily. 25 00:01:00,590 --> 00:01:01,920 It's opening! 26 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:03,730 And presto, I'm in. 27 00:01:03,730 --> 00:01:06,590 Now we're in this very intimate sort of parlor 28 00:01:06,590 --> 00:01:09,450 filled with all these magic artifacts. 29 00:01:09,450 --> 00:01:12,340 To the left there's this really incredible bar that's 30 00:01:12,340 --> 00:01:14,253 full art deco-ed out. 31 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:18,860 So we're just at bar before the show and 32 00:01:18,860 --> 00:01:22,000 I stepped up to the I guess performance area? 33 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:23,650 - [Man] Do you have a deck of cards I could borrow? 34 00:01:23,650 --> 00:01:25,030 - No. - All right I'll use mine. 35 00:01:25,030 --> 00:01:28,380 - The magician hosting ended up pulling me into a few 36 00:01:28,380 --> 00:01:30,143 tricks and it was a lot of fun. 37 00:01:32,780 --> 00:01:34,969 - Does anyone want to feel my balls? 38 00:01:34,969 --> 00:01:36,541 I'll let you feel 'em if you want 39 00:01:36,541 --> 00:01:38,230 it's okay if you don't want to. 40 00:01:38,230 --> 00:01:41,010 - Magic used to be intrinsic to Chicago. 41 00:01:41,010 --> 00:01:43,370 - Yeah we did create a style of magic 42 00:01:43,370 --> 00:01:45,050 that no one knows about. 43 00:01:45,050 --> 00:01:46,390 It's kind of lost to the ages. 44 00:01:46,390 --> 00:01:47,580 - So Chicago style magic? 45 00:01:47,580 --> 00:01:49,070 - Chicago style magic, yeah. 46 00:01:49,070 --> 00:01:52,420 It was about showing close up slight of hand 47 00:01:52,420 --> 00:01:54,600 at someone's table in a restaurant. 48 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:55,460 - Where'd it go? 49 00:01:55,460 --> 00:01:56,850 - I don't know. 50 00:01:56,850 --> 00:01:58,060 It disappeared. 51 00:01:58,060 --> 00:01:58,893 - Right. (laughs) - You know? 52 00:01:58,893 --> 00:02:02,880 What we're doing is trying to show you where magic is today 53 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:04,990 and re-introducing it to a new era. 54 00:02:04,990 --> 00:02:06,220 - Your magic trick unto itself. 55 00:02:06,220 --> 00:02:08,490 - Yeah. - This space is gorgeous. 56 00:02:08,490 --> 00:02:09,323 - [Joey] Thanks. 57 00:02:09,323 --> 00:02:10,830 - There's obviously secret doors and all of 58 00:02:10,830 --> 00:02:12,540 these really fun things, but, 59 00:02:12,540 --> 00:02:13,910 it's just an incredibly designed space, 60 00:02:13,910 --> 00:02:15,510 functionally where you have this, 61 00:02:15,510 --> 00:02:17,010 obviously, this big room here 62 00:02:17,010 --> 00:02:18,320 but a lot of really intimate moments 63 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:20,510 with one on one with the magicians too. 64 00:02:20,510 --> 00:02:23,700 - We want that personal engagement. 65 00:02:23,700 --> 00:02:25,720 We want the magic to be atmospheric, 66 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,320 we want it to be surrounding you at all times, 67 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:29,670 and the best way to do that is 68 00:02:29,670 --> 00:02:32,260 just bring table magic to you here. 69 00:02:32,260 --> 00:02:34,450 - [Magician] I'm gonna make a prediction by 70 00:02:34,450 --> 00:02:36,040 cutting the deck like this. 71 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,587 Now that's all it's gonna take, okay? 72 00:02:38,587 --> 00:02:40,143 Can you think of a card? 73 00:02:40,143 --> 00:02:41,276 - All right. I can say it? 74 00:02:41,276 --> 00:02:42,630 - [Magician] Yeah, you can say it I'm not gonna tell. 75 00:02:42,630 --> 00:02:43,530 - Three of clubs. 76 00:02:43,530 --> 00:02:47,110 - Exactly, cut the deck three quarters of the way down. 77 00:02:47,110 --> 00:02:48,170 A little more than that. 78 00:02:48,170 --> 00:02:50,470 All right turn them all face up. 79 00:02:50,470 --> 00:02:51,303 Exactly. 80 00:02:52,820 --> 00:02:54,840 - It's so weird to be watching somebody's hands 81 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:56,860 from like three inches away, literally 82 00:02:56,860 --> 00:02:58,360 and just having your mind blown because 83 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:00,650 you can't deconstruct how they're doing 84 00:03:00,650 --> 00:03:01,970 what they're doing at all. 85 00:03:01,970 --> 00:03:04,240 Literally, it's easier to accept that they're 86 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:06,450 breaking all the rules of reality and physics. 87 00:03:06,450 --> 00:03:08,130 What if the trick is it's all literally 88 00:03:08,130 --> 00:03:10,580 magic and there's no slight of hand going on? 89 00:03:10,580 --> 00:03:13,490 Then I watched the main stage show which was a lot 90 00:03:13,490 --> 00:03:16,527 like stand up comedy but with a lot like "whoa!" 91 00:03:16,527 --> 00:03:19,081 "what the hell's going on?" moments. 92 00:03:19,081 --> 00:03:22,240 (crowd murmurs, cheers) 93 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:25,400 Look, clearly, the founders of this are historical 94 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,510 magic nerds but the cool thing is they've 95 00:03:28,510 --> 00:03:31,520 found a way to design the experience so anybody can enjoy it 96 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:35,082 and get sucked in and have they're minds blown. 97 00:03:35,082 --> 00:03:36,443 - (chuckles) Holy crap.