DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — A highschool scholar from Rock Canyon Excessive Faculty is continuous to amaze mates, household and folks the world over after he appeared on a nationwide tv present referred to as Penn and Teller: Idiot Us.
The present options magicians who attempt to idiot Penn Jillette and Raymond Teller, two world-renowned magicians.
Being on the present is one thing 16-year-old Liam Abner had at all times aspired to do ever since he stopped within the Reinke Brothers store in Littleton six years in the past and met a then-famous magician, Richard Nakata.
“He requested, you realize, ‘You wish to see a magic trick?’” Abner mentioned. “Then he asks, you realize, ‘Do you wish to know the way it’s finished?’ And that’s whenever you kind of go down the rabbit gap and Richard gave me an eight-volume set of books. They’re referred to as the Tarbell Course in Magic.”
Then, he began performing in entrance of family and friends, studying as a lot in regards to the artwork as he might.
“I do observe greater than something. For those who’re my dad and mom listening to this, I don’t. I do faculty greater than something,” Abner mentioned with amusing.
He admitted he practices hours a day, and it has paid off since he now does paid performances.
“Issues like birthday events or cocktail hours. I imply, you identify it I’ve in all probability finished it,” Abner mentioned. “It’s great. I imply, it’s grown greater than I might’ve hoped.”
Lastly, final 12 months, he dedicated to creating a efficiency for the Penn and Teller present, then despatched it in. He mentioned he was in a band live performance enjoying his instrument, the tuba when he received a notification on his telephone. Whereas one other group was enjoying, he glanced at his telephone and his eyes widened.
“I see ‘Penn and Teller Idiot Us: Producers,’ and I have a look at it and I’m going, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s the Penn and Teller’. You recognize. World of pleasure after which the e-mail is, like, the shortest it probably might’ve been. It’s simply, ‘Liam, are you able to hop on a Zoom name at 10:30 tomorrow?’”
That was what he did. Months later, he discovered himself on stage in entrance of the largest viewers up till that time he had ever carried out in entrance of.
“Taking all of it in as a result of that’s, you realize, that’s what you need to do and that’s what they inform you to do,” Abner mentioned.
He carried out his trick, and whereas he wasn’t capable of idiot the nice Penn and Teller, the opposite half of the duo discovered him backstage.
“Teller says one thing I’ll in all probability always remember.” He mentioned, “‘On this trick, you may have achieved the best type of magical causality you probably might have.’”
He defined that’s magician lingo for saying that all the pieces main up to date the magic occurred was weaved collectively and timed completely.
“To obtain that from a grasp of magic, a real legend is, I imply, I in all probability stood there, I in all probability shed a tear if I’m completely sincere,” mentioned Abner
Now, Abner mentioned his objective is to turn out to be knowledgeable magician and proceed to convey individuals collectively via this unmatched artwork type.
“Nevertheless lengthy I’m with an viewers or with individuals you realize, with friends, nothing else issues. There’s no stress, there’s no fear, for me and the viewers,” Abner mentioned. “It is simply actually, actually wonderful what occurs in that second, in that interplay. And that’s the explanation I do what I do.”
