Silver Memories

but the very first trick I ever saw it wasn't even a magic trick it was more of a trick trick and I got to take you back and I brought along a time machine um to help take you back anybody familiar with these yes it's a it's an old ice cream pop push-up pop it was a was like an orange sherbet kind of a thing and it had in fact my first magic wand that came from that but you would push up the ice cream and it was my favorite treat as a kid um this to me is is warm summer day days and and discussions with with my family this takes me back it's a Memory trigger okay and the very first trick I ever saw sitting at my grandpa's table and we were we were sharing snacks and stuff and he took out a mint and let me show you something I said can you see that okay mhm I said sure sure he's all right watch watch this is this is fascinating I'm going to pick up that mint and I'm going to eat it without touching the tube and I said but your fingers are too big to get days I I know this I know but I'm going to pick up the mint and eat it without touching the tube I said well are you going to um are you going to blow it over you going to bump the table and maybe no no no no no no I'm just going to pick it up without touching the tube and I said well Grandpa bet you can't do that and grandpa said really did you say bet I said yeah he said all right a dollar says I can do it now in those days a dollar to me was five comic books so that's a good bet and I said well I I don't have any money it's okay you lose when you lose you do double chores for the week okay all right sure all right watch watch this is what he did he said it's gone I said there's no way in the world it's gone he said we'll take a look so so I took a look and he snatched up the mint and said see I didn't touch the tube yeah yeah no to myself I you cursed his name and then spend the next spent the next week doing double chores but I didn't pay for a single beverage in college so that he said that's a that's a memory we'll share he said every time you see one of those those You'll Think of Me and that way I can I can live forever he said a good memory is told by a good story and our memories are kept alive with good stories and a memory is a valuable thing he said sometimes the simplest of things will trigger a memory and it's like um catching a memory like that is like being able to pull money out of the air like um like a shiny 1921 Morgan silver dollar you know he said and they come out of nowhere sometimes just the smell of baking bread or or U new cut grass or something will just trigger that moment we remember it he said but you got to be careful with these things because they're fragile it's like days you collect them but sometimes if you're not paying attention if you're not really living for the moment you look away and that moment is just gone just gone like uh yeah like warm summer days the the sun sets the summer Fades into the fall and before you know it just gone even the people we care about the most as hard as we try to hold on as hard as we try to hold on they slip away and just that and what do we have left we have our stories we have our memories we have these these things that we collect and sometimes the simplest of things can bring them all back so I'm going to tell you a few stories I'm going to try to share some memories um hopefully at the end you'll have something you can take and and share with somebody else so let's um let's make this real um yeah my magic wand my first magic wand I used to wish on all kinds of things with that um I'm going make this into a into a cup kind of a thing I used to do this for fun and when I would choose stories to put my kids to bed with um sometimes I would sing to them sometimes I would sing the songs and this was something that I came up with as like story time okay and it's a it's a song full of um of dreams and uh and love and passion and it's from the very first Muppet movie and I used to love that as a child that was one of my favorite soundtracks one of my favorite movies too and the song is sung by my favorite Muppet Gonzo the great yeah do you know the song I'm going to go back there someday exactly right excuse me it's for my singing voice and the song goes like this this look familiar Vaguely Familiar almost unreal yet it's too soon to feel yet close to my soul and yet so far away I'm going to go back there someday sun rises night falls sometimes the sky calls is that a song there and do I belong there I've never been there but I know the way I'm going to go back there someday come and go with me it's more fun to share we'll both be completely at home in midair flying not walking on featherless Wings we can hold on to love like invisible strs there's not a word yet for Old Friends who've just met part Heaven part space or have I found my place you can just visit but I plan to stay I'm going to go back there some day I'm going to go back there [Music] some you very much have a great day

Channel: Hannibal the Magician

Views: 208,950

Keywords: coin, cylinder, magic, hannibal, love, song, lullaby, art, muppets, silver, cardmonkey, magic castle, hollywood, pushup, three bread crumbs, rene lavand, harry anderson, family, storyteller

Id: 1J9dx0Wqd_M

Length: 7min 50sec (470 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 17 2017