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[Applause] welcome to Google how are you holding a microphone will you speak today no tell her what are the origins of being silent on stage during your act you're asking the exact same questions that the New York Times guy did just as if they were right on the piece of paper Naiya cotton when I was when I was a teenager I rebelled against the idea of magic patter because it always seemed redundant you know guy would be standing up there going here I have a red ball well yeah or it would be you know as a kid like me when I was when I was like 12 I did a Chinese magic act where I had you know like a long mustache and a little hat and an orange velvet robe and I claimed to be 200 years old and lived in ancient China because I didn't know how long ago China was ancient and I as an audience member I would find that insulting so when I started to get a little more idea what was going on I thought it would be interesting to drop patter so that people would have to put together what they're looking at on their own and nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself so if I'm not if I say here's a perfectly ordinary pack of cards you're going to mistrust me if I say if I hand you the cards and go like this and you shuffle them then you'll believe that that's a real pack of cards even if it's fake so it was partly the idea of not doing redundant patter and it was partly the idea of making magic more convincing and eventually I discovered that there's all sorts of cool things that happened for me because I'm not like an overpowering personality undercutting the kinds of places I was working at frat parties at college and if I had tried to overpower those kids with their cups of beer you know groping their girlfriends they would have paid no attention to me I don't think they paid that much attention to me the way I did it but it was more than I would have had otherwise and you know I just set up a couple of long spots and did things like swallow razor blades and and let them put that together and let them be a little bit creeped out by that and that's compelled attention and you feel like an idiot if you're heckling a silent guy and then eventually you know working working with pen all these years what I've discovered this is there's something absolutely incredible that happens when you don't talk you know you because everything becomes very intimate because you're looking at them they're looking at you and that intimacy is really thrilling to me now I saw your show on Thursday and you mentioned on the show that you met tell...