THIS is what YouTube was created for!

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Don't get me wrong, this dude is GOOD! A true showman. There is most certainly 
an observable excellence of skill here. Buuut....

I can't help but think... masonic trickery. Not necessarily with this guy, but with
the whole magic show/illusionist thing in general. Now I know, some folks would
say "Man, you're just way too paranoid". But I've felt this way for a long, long time
now. Many years before becoming away of conspiracy "theories".

I used to hear people say that stage magicians "sold their souls to the Devil" in order
to be able to perform their "tricks". And I didn't really know how to feel about it. I never
discounted that thought but I left it open-ended. It could all just be skillful misdirection.

Well, all these years later, isn't that EXACTLY what these various factions of secret society
organizations DO? Skillfully misdirect the public's view of the world? Keeping their secrets
under lock & key with death as the penalty for "breaking the code" and divulging said 
secrets?

A couple nights ago I had this other thought: Could modern stand-up comedy have dark
roots similar to the 60's era hippy movement and the whole Laurel Canyon thing? I know 
it somehow evolved from the days of Roman and Greek theater and court jesters but 
is it possible that things got dirty along the way?

I've done NO actual research into this at all. Just had a few suspicions.