How We Turned Cooking Disasters into Social Media Gold | Kyle & Mistie Knight DSH #693

Who's the better cook?

Oh, that's easy.

I'm not a great cook, but I'm the better cook.

I'm not a cook at all.

But they love seeing him cook on our channel.

They love to see him.

Every now and then.

But to be honest, because we have this irreverent approach, we don't try to be perfect.

We show the mistakes.

Sometimes it turns out to be a disaster, and we just, we're honest about it.

All right, guys, we got Kyle and Misty Night here, social media superstars and entertainers.

Thanks for coming on, guys.

Thanks for being on us.

Yeah, you've got quite a crazy story traveling to 86 countries performing, right?

Yeah, we started this journey together over 20 years ago.

He'd been performer his whole life and I joined the show from a tiny town in Mississippi and I just left everything and moved to Las Vegas and we just started these adventures and we were performing all over the world and performing for corporate events here in Las Vegas and cruises for many years as well worked with Disney Cruise Line.

And now we've settled into being content creators and influencers in addition to that.

What a transition, right?

COVID happened and that's kind of what sparked it.

100%.

That was the moment of change.

That was a fork in the road right there, COVID.

We had always had a trend of learning to evolve and adapt with what adapt with whatever was given our situation.

And whenever COVID hit, all the theaters closed.

And for a lot of performers, it was devastating.

We just knew we had to shift.

And so we started making virtual shows where we would have interactive magic shows that we would provide for companies.

We did shows for Amazon, Google, other big names like that.

And then we also tapped into making content for the internet because social media just came alive during that time.

And we decided it was the perfect chance for me to finally have my childhood dream of a cooking show come about.

And that's just blown up.

And so now we do magic incorporated into our cooking show.

We have one of the most unique cooking shows in the world, I think.

We put random stuff in, if there's not something in left field in this cooking show, it's not.

It's definitely new viewers watch us and think, okay, this is off.

There's some weird stuff because we have hidden Easter eggs all over our kitchen.

There's just funny out there moments, and then I'll make eggs appear.

We did a trick where Kyle would have an egg floating in the stream of water, and it started a TikTok trend.

It got like 8 million views, and everybody was breaking eggs in their sinks.

That's unique.

8 million followers, right?

We have about 8 million across platform between Facebook.

So Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube.

Insane.

And 10 billion views total.

Yeah.

Over 10 billion.

I stopped counting, but I think that's where we were at last time I counted.

Yeah, that's a lot of eyeballs.

Did you guys expect this to take off like it did?

I don't think we had any idea it was going to blow up like this.

I thought this would be a thing we do for a short time after, you know, after COVID until the theaters reopen, but there's no reason for us to go back and do touring anymore.

It's and it's just, it's really cool that I'm able to, because when we were touring with our show, living out of a suitcase, I really didn't have an opportunity to get in the kitchen and properly cook like I've always wanted to.

This gave me the chance to do that, but also entertain people at the same time.

And it's really cool because we're able to share our magic with a whole new audience that wouldn't have necessarily been a magic fan.

Right.

It's a younger crowd, right?

On social media.

And on TikTok and Instagram, it is, but then on Facebook, it's actually an older crowd.

So we've got a lot of moms and grandmas that are, we're their daily show.

You know, they look forward to getting a recipe and seeing some magic.

It's cool to see you guys adapt because a lot of performers rely on the in-person experiences.

Yeah, we, you know, it definitely was a shock whenever all that was taken away, but being able to connect with people through the internet opened so many doors.

And so I'm just really grateful that we were able to shift because our whole career path now has got, you know, limitless opportunities now because of the change.

Absolutely.

So what was the show you guys were performing?

Well, we used to do a magic show, a big magic illusion show.

We had produced motorcycles and we disappear from one place and reappear in the audience.

And we did close-up magic.

And all, you know, we worked for Disney, we worked for Royal Caribbean, we did casinos.

We had shows in Dubai and Egypt, Macau.

We were at a casino there for a while.

So we would do private events and also headline in the Walt Disney Theater on cruises and different cruise lines.

But we slowly kind of made the show a little bit smaller rather than about the big illusions, more just about the personality and the interaction between us and the interaction with the audience.

It's always been very much about them.

We kind of have an irreverent attitude toward it too.

We don't take ourselves too seriously.

And we were able to take that style of entertainment and bring it into the kitchen in our social media show.

And we still do corporate events now here in Las Vegas often whenever companies come to town.

But for the most part, you can find us online.

I love it.

And you guys went on Penn and Teller, too, right?

Yeah, we were on Penn and Teller Fool Us season two.

And we were on Wizard Wars, which we uh well, I'll let you tell that.

We Wizard Wars was on sci-fi channel.

It aired just before Fool Us.

Okay.

In fact, the producers of Fool Us saw us on Wizard Wars and then I invited us on the show.

And we fooled Penn and Teller on Wizard Wars and won the whole thing.

That's cool.

Yeah, Kyle actually fooled him with an egg.

I put a took one of the judges' rings and it reappeared behind them inside an egg.

And I created it.

And they cracked it over.

And we created this

egg trick

literally a couple nights before filming.

It never even worked in the rehearsal, but

it's a really cool.

You describe it better than I did.

Well, you did a good job describing it.

They didn't know how we did it.

Whenever we were all, we ended up winning the $10,000 grand prize.

And after the show, Teller, who actually does talk, he said, can I have a guess?

And he guessed wrong.

Wow.

So that was fun.

But it was our.

And it didn't work in rehearsal.

So you didn't even know if it was going to work or not.

We were not.

That's pretty much half our career.

We don't know if it's going to work or not.

Keep going.

Just keep going.

That's respect, though, because some people fear that they're being made fun of on stage if they mess up.

And that's why we try not to take ourselves too seriously because the performers are just people and our audience.

They're rooting for you to succeed.

If you get on the level with them and just, we're in this together.

We're just having an experience together.

Then, you know, you're able to roll with it whenever things get thrown your way.

Because

Show Biz will definitely prove.

And it's tough now because because of social media, people are revealing how to to do these tricks, so it makes it tough for you guys, right?

Yeah, you'll see people revealing stuff, but to be honest, I'm not too worried about it.

Magic isn't real, we're not trying to convince anybody it is, we're just using it as a tool to be able to entertain and just make the day easier, you know?

So we always had an irreverent style anyway.

We would expose things in our own show, like we sawing in half was probably one of the best things we had.

One of the highlights in this show was we'd expose an old version of sawing in half where there's a woman on both sides of the boxes, and you know, she's curled up and they we show the fake legs and yeah he would talk about you know this is how you used to do sawing in half and there's one curled up on this side and one curled up on this side and he said but if you look closer there's actually two and and then he would pull out a pair of fake legs and say we're not even going to use these tonight so we kind of you know hit it head on we know what you're thinking magic isn't real that's right but that doesn't mean that you can't suspend your disbelief and go on this journey with us and just have fun with it so and i think uh david blain does a good job with that right oh fantastic you guys are on his team as well We are part of his

magic team.

And yeah, we've been working with it about a year and a half now.

Las Vegas runs shows.

So sold out.

Sold out, yeah.

It's a great experience and it's just fun to be part of it.

Yeah.

And he's just a, he's just a really cool guy that loves magic.

He's, he's very chill and he has that same approach in his show where, you know, it's the whole audience is there just experiencing this with him.

It's very much about them rather than about him.

Yeah.

That's why I respect him because he was doing magic before the money was there, right?

Yeah.

Like 20, 30 years ago.

Yep.

Doing it on the street.

Yeah.

He really started a whole new genre of magic.

And it's an honor to be able to work so closely with him.

He's a great guy.

Yeah.

Did you guys have mentors in magic growing up?

I mean, when I was growing up, it was Copperfield.

Yeah.

I remember watching David Copperfield legend.

It's funny because I was a little kid.

I remember looking at Copperfield's TV shows and following along the screen with the mind reading at home.

But I just got thrown into magic whenever I was in my early 20s and never looked back.

Like your parents or?

no, him.

I'm from a tiny town in Mississippi.

I met him and fell in love and actually met him on a cruise where he was performing.

Oh, wow.

Today's our wedding anniversary, too.

But I canceled my flight home.

She actually never saw my show.

I want to tell a story about it.

She missed my show that night because she was partying in Cozumel or something like that.

Wow.

And so she never saw the show, but we still kept in touch after.

And

we were airy.

We met at the bar very much.

No, we

trouble.

I was on vacation and I did not see his show, but I didn't know that this was going to be my future husband.

We kept in touch over the phone for almost a year.

Wow.

And I came to visit him in Vegas and canceled my flight home.

Incredible.

Everybody back in Mississippi just thought I was crazy, but I've always kind of been somebody just go for it.

Yeah, because magic's probably not big in Mississippi.

Oh, no.

Definitely not a lot of opportunity there.

Yeah.

But Vegas led to some opportunities with magic and

networking and working in corporate events.

So here we are.

Vegas is the hub hub of magic, right?

Yeah, it's considered the magic capital of the world by some.

And

it's great because there's a lot of other performers that we work with.

In addition to our own show, we're also agents and managers for a dozen other performers around the world.

So many of those are magicians that are here in Las Vegas.

So we act as consultants and agents for them as well.

How possible is it to make a living being a magician these days?

I think it's probably more possible now than ever because you've got the opportunity to use social media, which didn't exist before.

You've got the opportunity for close-up magic, for stage performances.

It's definitely

a more opportunistic

genre, but it's not something that most people are willing to dedicate enough to to get to the level of making a good living with it.

Yeah, I agree with you.

They don't have the right direction.

If somebody new is getting into this, they maybe don't have the right direction and follow the right path and do the right things.

That's where we come in.

We have all these years of experience that we can help guide that we can help their career.

So,

we enjoy taking people that are just starting out and using the experience that we've had with the 20 years in the industry and as consultants and agents and managers and just helping start their career path on the right direction.

And it's really fulfilling to be able to kind of pass the torch.

And now, we only do the gigs that we want to do-you know, the jobs that we want, the places we want to go, or if it's enough money that we want to go.

You know, what were your favorite places looking back at your career to visit?

We have been going to Egypt, was definitely a bucket list.

I'm going there this year, Yeah, we got to see the pyramids and he we had some crazy experiences there and performing for the locals there was really amazing.

I try to learn a little bit of the language everywhere we go just to greet them and thank them.

And they were so receptive to that.

And I was a little nervous going, you know, we'd been to Dubai before, but that's a little different than Egypt.

And yeah, we were surrounded with armed guards the whole time.

And it was just like, you know, they really wanted to make sure we were safe.

But the people were so welcoming and kind.

So I really appreciated it.

Out to Egyptians, man.

I can't wait to go though.

I'm going with Billy Carson this year.

And I'm going to visit the pyramids.

Yeah.

Did you have any mystical experiences?

You want to tell them what happened with you?

In the sarcophagus?

Yeah, yeah.

So we actually, we were on this, we were treated like, you know, like rock stars when we were there.

We have VIP treatment.

They took us into the sarcophagus and we got to lay down into this.

He said, do you want to go inside?

And he said, are you serious?

It was just us.

It was a private guide.

Nobody else was in this tomb but us.

And he said, here, you can go in and I'll take a picture.

So we have a picture of Kyle lying in the sarcophagus.

So, hopefully, he didn't get cursed or anything.

Hopefully, not.

It's been good so far.

Yeah, you guys are killing it, Alma.

Can't wait to see where this cooking show takes you guys.

It is funny how the cooking show has just taken off.

We uh, we were originally on Facebook, our page was already verified, had 15,000 followers from our magic appearances on TV and things, and people that had seen our live show.

And that was in August of two years ago.

And then by January of that following year, it was at 2 million followers.

So it grew that fast organically.

Crazy.

We were getting 100 million views a week easily.

And this was just, it was just us showing quick and easy recipes.

Like not to the extent that I would ever call myself a chef, but definitely easy recipes that were for people that don't really know how to cook with a bunch of entertainment thrown in.

We put like random things in the refrigerator.

Like last yesterday, we were filming and we had a pot on the stove behind her.

And I cut a hole in the pot and I had my arm through and had like a

climbing out of the pot.

So I just had random, weird stuff in this all the time.

And it's

and so it's obviously a lot of fun and it's allowing me to kind of live out this dream that I've always had where I wanted to truly be able to get in the kitchen and have a cooking show.

That's beautiful.

And it's led to some great opportunities.

I can't talk about it yet, but I've got a big TV appearance coming up that came directly from our cooking show.

So you hear more about that next year.

Beautiful.

But in the meantime, we're working with brands.

I'm really thrilled to be partnering with brands like Hungry Root and, you know.

promoting their brands as influencers.

So that's something that we're expanding more on as well.

Yeah, those meal prep companies have gotten better because I I used to order them like years ago and it wasn't that good, but now they've stepped up their game.

Yeah, I love partnering with brands like that that we, you know, already like to work with already.

It's something that I would have paid for.

And now they found us on social media and they said, you're a great fit for us.

So let's have a long-term partnership.

And the money on Facebook's good too, right?

Yeah.

And TikTok's getting better now.

Yeah, we're in a unique situation because some influencer influencers are just doing brand deals, but we also are monetizing our videos with in-stream ads.

And so that allows for great income monthly.

We could rely just on that.

But we've never been somebody to kind of take it easy.

So we've got five things going at once all the time.

Foots on the gas.

I don't know if you've noticed the TikTok payouts lately, but they're way better than they used to be.

Well,

I was having a great time with TikTok over the last few months, but then they changed it to the new creator fund instead of creativity beta.

And the value of the views.

for payouts has gone down considerably.

Oh, it has?

It used to be about $300 or $400 per million, and now it's like a third of that.

Oh, wow.

From what I'm seeing.

I didn't notice that.

Yeah, my payout a couple months ago was crazy, though.

But that's the previous month.

Those were good.

This month is looking like it's not as good.

But the good thing is, is that I'm not relying on any one platform.

We've got content on Facebook, TikTok.

We have multiple pages on Facebook.

We have some pages that are just for magic and puzzles.

And then we have others that are cooking specific.

And then YouTube is, we've got a couple hundred thousand followers on YouTube as well.

That's good.

And I just started building Instagram.

Yeah.

And yeah, it's exciting to see where this is going to take us.

Yeah, Instagram just launched monetization a couple months ago.

Yeah, we were able to get an invite for that.

So it's nice to be able to see the views get rewarded.

Yeah, absolutely.

With your talent, what's the kind of the main goal with that?

Do you want to build a roster and then get acquired one day?

I'm really enjoying just all these different aspects of being in the entertainment industry.

I love, you know, mentoring and, you know, being an agent and a manager for other performers.

So I do think we'll definitely have part of that be our focus.

But I'm excited mostly to continue with the content creation and work with brands and work with brands as an influencer, but also work with companies to provide entertainment for their corporate events.

Because we've got all this experience as performers as well.

And it's a unique situation because we've got these two different industries now that can meld.

I'm excited to do some cooking, you know, some cooking corporate shows.

Like, I would love to be able to perform for a corporate event that was maybe in the food industry.

And so we can have both worlds combined.

In fact, we're thinking about going back on Fool Us with a new routine that's a cooking magic routine.

That'd be cool because they've seen everything by now.

So you're going to need to do something crazy.

Yeah.

We've got some tricks up our sleeves.

I love it.

Who's the better cook?

Oh, that's easy.

I'm not a great cook, but I'm the better cook.

I'm not a cook at all.

But they love seeing him cook on our channel.

They love to see him.

Every now and then he'll do one and they are just rooting him on.

Cooking's tough, man.

But we, but to be honest, because we have this irreverent approach, we don't try to be perfect.

We show the mistakes.

Sometimes it turns out to be a disaster and we just we're honest about it and they get a kick out of it because they get to see you know they get to see the real unfiltered version yeah which dish ended up being a disaster um well

the one we just did the other day on the live that didn't work out very well we did a live a live broadcast and it was it was pretty rough at the end so you can see that

gadgets and weird things and you try to experiment a little bit we do a lot of experiments okay and sometimes they go well and sometimes they don't yeah the stakes on live are high that's why i don't do live podcasts oh yeah yeah you don't know what people are gonna say like you know what i mean we uh i don't know maybe it's just the adrenaline of it i do enjoy doing live broadcasts because in a real way it feels like a show like a stage show it is authentic and they like to their our followers enjoy interacting with real time so it is a thing that it's funny

right we have uh really gotten to know a lot of these followers that have been with us now for years and I know them by name and we have inside jokes for certain people and I spend a lot of time really trying to engage with them directly.

I know some people, you know, have other people they hire to do their engagement, but I enjoy doing it personally.

And I think that that is one reason why we've developed such a loyal following because they know it's authentic.

Yeah, that's important, that community aspect made people feel important.

Yeah.

Because some people just don't respond at all.

Yeah,

I mean, being performers, our goal has always just been connecting with people around the world and just, you know, giving people a chance to just smile.

And I mean, magic is a great tool for that.

Food is also something that everybody can relate to.

So we're just excited to be able to expand this brand into all different branches of the entertainment industry.

What do you guys think of mentalists?

I've had a couple on the show and it just blows my mind.

We do a lot of

mentalism in the show.

Oh,

the ending years of when we were doing touring, we did.

a huge section of mentalism.

We do

a lot of things that are in the kind of magic that are mind-reading magic, but we're very transparent in saying that just like all other magic, it is a trick.

We're not at all trying to claim to be psychics.

And if somebody is doing that,

they're using magic methods.

It's still a trick.

I mean, if you look back at Houdini, whenever he was young, he spent much of his life proving,

you know, disproving these people that were claiming these things were real when they were in fact just using magic methods.

So we do use mind-reading magic, but we package it as though it is still just an illusion like everything else.

Wow.

Yeah.

Cause I was the mentalist on.

And he's a good idea.

Jerry, great friend of ours.

Yeah, he was was like, think of a girl from fifth grade.

I've thought of the most obscure name.

Like, you guys would have never known this name.

And he guessed it.

Yep.

First try.

Yeah.

Jerry's a great friend of ours.

He's been in town for a long time.

Yeah.

I mean, it just blows my mind.

I mean, you could probably use that in a lot of different ways.

Yeah, we've done some mentalisms, some mentalisms.

We've done some mentalism in some live broadcasts, actually, with our, with our cooking show.

We do live broadcasts with magic, and we've done a few mentalism shows.

We could do it over text.

Yeah, we've done in our virtual shows.

We would do a lot of mentalism performances when we were doing corporate, and we still can do virtual shows now, but obviously there's more demand for in-person.

Yeah, I'm glad it's back.

The virtual wave was not for me.

I was going crazy in my apartment.

Yeah.

You know, I'm sure you guys were dealing with that too, right?

Well, we were busy making content at that point when that happened, and everybody was at home and couldn't leave.

It was the opportunity because, you know, America was looking for entertainment online.

So that's when we started.

We had a lot of our major viral hits, like 300 million on single videos during that time.

During that, that first year.

Wow.

And

I believe it's a little bit more difficult to get those kinds of views now, especially because social media is so saturated.

But, you know, I think that it's a little bit addictive.

You know, when you see those numbers going up, it's something that is a motivating force.

Yeah, it never ends.

When I see a video go viral, I always love that feeling.

Yeah.

I got to keep chasing it.

That's why I post three times a day because I'm three times.

You know, I'm like a drug addict.

Like, I'm looking for that next big video.

I got the same brain on our Facebook page.

I'm posting three, four times a day as well.

you have to yeah because one's not enough you need to be posting multiple times a day that's why i film so many podcasts too yeah well we're excited to be here this is and we're locals in vegas too yeah it's i love connecting with locals too i think community is important vegas has a good community yeah i knew i i just heard that you had another one of the performers that we book for cruises that was on your side not long yeah that was a fun one man he threw cards and hit my finger but i'm good yeah i was holding up a celery yeah cut it in half yeah he's one he's one of the acts that we book book in the European circuit.

Yeah, he's awesome.

Would you guys ever consider going on America's Got Talent?

They've reached out every year.

Oh, they do?

They've asked us every year.

It's just scheduling has never really worked out.

We just...

It's such a big time commitment.

It's a big time commitment that we just...

We've always said no.

How long does it take?

Well, you know, if you're there for the long run, it's, you know, six weeks or so.

You know, because it continually.

There's more and more episodes.

And we've had some

friends that were, you know, have had a lot of success there.

But we, so far, it's not been something that we've wanted to pursue just yet, where they're just cheering on our friends.

We probably should do it at some point.

I think so.

Yeah, before we get to that, I can't imagine we're going to have time for that.

It's like a staple for magicians, right?

I think so.

Like Shin Lim went through it.

He's a good friend of ours, too.

Yeah, he did it twice.

So he won it twice.

He won it twice?

He won the original one, and then he won champions as well.

Wow, that's impressive.

I got to check out his show, too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's been on the billboard all.

It's not just Shin, too.

His wife, Casey, who's a good friend of ours, just debuted her solo magic performance in the show as well.

Wow.

So I don't know if that's a secret, but go see it.

You'll get to see a few different magicians.

Didn't know you had a wife.

What's been some of your favorite shows that you guys have been to?

I know you're friends with them, so it might be tough picking.

Blaine is obviously unlike any of other shows that you'll find in town.

So we're honored to be a part of that and experience it weekly whenever he's in town or monthly when he's in town.

Who else do we really like?

Penn and Teller has always been somebody that we liked because of their irreverent style as well.

And I think we can find something good to say about all our Vegas magic friends.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jerry's great for mentalism.

You said he was on the show.

Another one, some people don't know.

He's kind of a hidden gem, Mike Hammer.

He's very funny.

He's downtown.

Mike Hammer.

Yeah, do you know Mike?

Is he been on the show yet?

No.

I'll have to hook you guys up.

What kind of magic is that?

He's a comedy magician.

Okay.

He's very sarcastic with his delivery, but he's downtown.

Nice.

Comedy magician.

Wow.

There's all sorts of combos you can do.

Definitely.

Who else do you think?

Oh, we've just, there's just an unlimited.

All of us magicians know each other here in town.

That's who I noticed.

And it's, for the most part, it's a pretty collaborative and supportive group.

You've got the Magic Dragon.

Okay.

Oh, Piff.

Yeah, Piff's great.

You've got

on AGT as well.

Why can't I?

Franco, Mark, Mark Franco.

Yeah, he's very, very kind down to earth.

You know, his show was great as well, too.

There's a lot of opportunities.

We haven't seen a show in a while.

A lot of opportunities for good magic here in town.

That's cool to see it's a collaborative community community because I feel like it's easy to compete.

Yeah, for the most part.

We got a little bit of pushback from magicians when we started making videos for content.

It was a weird thing where people, I don't know if they felt like it was, you know, abandoning the art, but honestly, like I said, we've never taken ourselves that seriously.

Magic is a tool to be able to entertain people.

And, you know, we'll use all of the tools that we have at our disposal to be able to achieve that.

Absolutely.

So you were Miss Las Vegas.

Yeah, I

a few days, a few years ago back in the day,

in 2006, I competed in the Miss America program.

And I had competed previously in Mississippi whenever I was in college.

I was always attracted to that organization because it was different than, it wasn't a beauty pageant.

80% of our scoring came from talent and interviews.

Oh, wow.

And I played classical piano for talent and I won the overall talent award, which was another separate scholarship.

And so I saw it as an opportunity to really develop my public speaking skills and my talent.

I wanted to be on stage.

I wanted to be a performer.

And this encompassed all of those things.

And I represented my hometown of Mississippi, and then I won the title of Miss Las Vegas.

And I ended up winning $30,000 in scholarships.

It's a nonprofit.

Nice.

And I'm only four foot 11.

I'm not a tall model type by any means.

So that just proves that it wasn't necessarily about physicality.

It was about all these other aspects that you might have, you know, like girl next door kind of thing.

Right.

Well-rounded.

That's how it should be, honestly, because looks are subjective.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

It was a great opportunity.

It taught me a lot.

And I really, truly credit my experience with that, with allowing me to be able to jump into the show that, you know, when I gave me the opportunity 20 years ago and be comfortable on stage and be able to handle all these different public speaking engagements and things like that.

And then eventually ended up playing the piano on stage in our magic show as well.

Wow.

And I really was able to develop my piano skills and prep for the Miss America pageants.

That's awesome.

I used to play a little piano.

Yeah.

My mom would smack me if I messed up.

Did she have a ruler?

No, just a little cheek slap.

But yeah, I'm a little scarred from that.

She watches every episode.

I love my mom, but

high standards, you know, as a parent.

Yeah, well, I'm glad she got you to try piano.

You know, all these different skills can help develop into other aspects of your life that you might not have even appreciated at the time.

Right.

Yeah.

The discipline was good.

I needed it as a kid, just all over the walls of the house.

You know, I was a wild kid.

That's funny.

Yeah.

What goes down in Mississippi?

And you know what's so funny?

You said you were a wild kid.

I've immediately got flashbacks in my head of me bringing home frogs and snakes in my pockets and climbing trees.

I was a wild kid, too.

I was a country girl.

And

it's funny because I feel like I play up that southern side of me in our cooking show, too, because I feel like I'm kind of back at home and I'm pulling from things that my grandma taught me.

And so I'm definitely.

keeping close to that part of me, even though I've been a city girl now for a while.

I love that.

What about you, Kyle?

Are you remote?

Yeah, I was crazy.

Myself and my brother were just crazy.

We had four-wheelers and we lived in Wisconsin.

We grew up just like playing in the mud and the, you know, just bonfires and just all the stuff that you shouldn't be doing.

Tell them about the job you had before you started doing maths.

My only real job in my entire life was working on a dairy farm in Wisconsin.

Bailing hay.

Baling hay.

And it's like, that is hard work.

And that's when I knew that I needed to get out of Wisconsin and not do that type of.

job.

I needed to expand and explore the world.

People don't realize how heavy hay gets.

My grandparents had a farm and they would tell me to like carry those.

Yeah.

It's not fun.

It scratches up your arms.

It's hard work and it's, you know, I think I chose wisely.

You did.

The choices that you made, you know, younger, as

a kid, just created this ripple effect that has been life-changing for so many people, genuinely.

Wow.

Because you made these choices to follow your own path.

And one of the most appreciated pieces that we do in our magic show is something called Nothing's Impossible, where we use a wooden puzzle.

And I tell the story of how Kyle came to be where he is now.

And same for me, basically, how all these people all these years told us, you shouldn't do that.

You know, get a real job.

Do something safe.

And we both got that.

And if you had followed that advice,

a nurse or a school teacher, and I was supposed to work on a dairy farm.

If we had followed that advice of doing something safe, we would have never had this entrepreneurial spirit where we could have so many opportunities.

And that all started with you when you were young, which then led to me and all these now people that we manage.

So, so good job.

Yeah,

when you zoom out, it does come down to that mirror decision.

That's crazy.

But now you're both in touch with your purpose and your passion.

It's beautiful.

Cause if you kept those nine to five jobs, you'd probably be miserable.

Yeah, I think that, you know, just follow your heart and don't be afraid to take risks because there's so many things.

If I had, had, you know, held back from fear, these opportunities wouldn't have come.

Right.

And now, now, because of that, I've learned from it.

We just say yes to everything.

wow like the crazy tv show that i just filmed i can't believe i said yes to it because it was very difficult and out of my comfort zone but you know i think you just say yes and you and it forces you to rise to the occasion and you know that motivation to just level up and be the best you can be in every aspect right so i just embrace those things when they come yeah there's no growth when you're comfortable right for sure yeah you guys brought some tricks oh

you want to see the most amazing card trick in the history of the world yeah let's do it right now every deck of cards has 52 different cards: hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades.

It goes ace through king.

I'll let you decide: would you like to use black cards or red cards?

Red.

Red cards.

Out of the red cards, we have hearts and we have diamonds.

Which card would you like to use?

A diamond.

So out of the diamonds, ace, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, king.

Which diamond would you like to use?

King.

The king of diamonds.

We'll find the king of diamonds.

There should only be one in here.

So there's a king of hearts went by.

We're looking for the king of diamonds chosen by you right there.

In fact, I have a pen here.

I want you to sign your name on this

King of Diamonds marker right there.

She's got one?

Diamonds, we're going to use a blue marker.

Here you go.

So put your name on there.

Hold it for you.

So there you go.

So now you know Sean's name on it.

Thank you.

Is this the camera right here?

This one right there.

King of Diamonds right there.

The only king of diamonds in the entire world signed by you, unless you go around signing king of diamonds.

You don't.

So that one goes right here.

I'm going to put it in the middle.

How it's going to take that signed card and lose it in the middle of it.

About halfway down.

So there's no cuts, no palming, no sleight of hand.

It's 100% right about there.

You can probably tell it's still sticking out a little bit right there.

The cards go inside the box,

inside the box.

The box gets closed up.

So we want to make sure you can't get to that card.

So we're going to create a cage.

Using these rubber bands locking your signed cards.

Rubber bands go all the way around the outside of the box.

So the card that you sign in the middle in the box.

rubber bands wrapped around it.

Wow.

That's not enough, though.

I know you're a skeptic, right?

So we're going to create another layer of separation.

Wrap it with that piece of foil as well.

Piece of aluminum foil gets wrapped around the outside as well, just like this.

All right.

So it's wrapped all directions like this.

Still not convinced.

We can make this even more difficult.

Empty paper bag.

It's going to go inside that as well.

So the deck of cards goes inside the paper bag, just like that.

All right.

You're a skeptic, right?

We'll add another layer.

Another layer.

Think about how fair this is.

It is literally trapped inside.

Five layers.

Five layers.

all right this is the dangerous part little spike right here i'm gonna take a spike and i want you to take that hold on to that end right there yeah hold on to that end you hold it real yeah hold it real hard yeah i think you got it we're gonna do we'll let you do it okay we're gonna hold it real tight we're gonna pull it back towards you yeah just like that we're gonna do this little snap on three ready one two

Whoa, whoa, there's one card skewered through here.

Not just any card.

Not just any card.

What was your card again?

King of Diamonds.

And it had your name on it, though, right?

Check this out.

No way.

That's crazy.

Crazy.

What?

Isn't that cool?

Yeah, that's so cool.

We do this in our stage show, and we were able to have different people from the audience be involved in every step of the way.

It's completely fair.

Very interactive.

You're the first, first, first person to ever hold on to that.

Yeah, he just improvved it.

He improv that with you right now.

When we're on stage, I'm the one holding that.

And we stretch this long rope across the whole stage.

So it's unique for a card trick to fill the stage, but we found a way to do it with this.

But instead of me holding it, he just said, all right, let's just roll with it.

We'll we'll give it to him so cool that's one of the coolest ones i've seen awesome yeah guys anything you want to close off with or promote yeah i just i just hope that we're able to connect with other companies in all of the different ways that we can promote their brands either through you know influencer partnerships or providing entertainment for your events when you're in las vegas let us know because we uh we have got either the show ourselves or somebody else that we can provide entertainment through the people that we work with all over the world perfect just excited to connect with other people that's that's what the name of the game is love it anything

this has been a fun experience, and I'm just happy to meet you and be here.

And you said it really well.

So, happy anniversary.

Oh, it's our anniversary.

Yeah, happy anniversary, guys.

We'll link your stuff below.

If you guys are interested in booking them or learning from them, we'll link it below.

Thanks for watching, and see you tomorrow.