Mafias Most Wanted Card Magician - Richard Turner

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s but I see what you have in your pocket let's have ten what's up then the card cut to you you just left with a million and a quarter one hundred percent used means they kill you when they're done with you you know those Dillmans from the Middle East he said they own half the world he said we own the other half you're not you're not one of the best you are the best there is a big difference why you know what I consider the worst disability of all procrastination and laziness is your ability or talent attract us an interesting audience right oh and tell him if maybe I cheated on you will you? to communicate with me my right ear reads lips I said for thousands, a lot of money, so it's not for a judge, he says now, if you ever want your wife killed, I can arrange it, so look before you go straight to the interview , there's I'll reveal it here with my guest Richard Turner in about ten minutes, which you'll probably freak out when you find out what the reveal is, but I want to tell you a couple of things.

I saw the documentary about him last night. It's called It's Just Two Documentaries. They have made me cry and you know I love documentaries, one was Sena and the other is the story of his life, which is one of the

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s and mechanics of letters he does not recognize. one of the best, he is recognized as number one, you know you are number one when the best come and ask you for an autograph and a photo, that is what we are talking about just to announce a couple of things that he is in recognition, it was a 2015. and top

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of the year 2017 from the Academy of Magical Arts, he is in the Magic Castle Hall of Fame and, in addition, in 1982 Siegfried and Roy honored him with a Golden Lion in magic, so said this again.

There will be a surprise reveal about five to ten minutes, but I want to introduce you to a very special guest, Richard Turner, Richard, thank you for being with us, you are my entertainment. I'm so honored to be here with you today, Patrick, it's great. I have been very excited about this interview because I am a product of studying people and there are some that you studied and you see why this person really took their game to a completely different level, but you have been able to do it in your profession and your personal life in the fatherhood and your health in so many areas and I want to get into topics of Dai Vernon's obsession, you know some of the experiences with your sister that we'll delve into maybe a little bit. a bit of Phil Ivey about what happened to him in the UK when you know the ten million dollar issue he had, I think it was 7.2 million pounds, you know which one I'm talking about, maybe we're in for a bit of that, but there are some other topics that will happen after the reveal, but before we do that, I want you once you do a little bit of your work and show us what you have good and what I am is a card mechanic and you mentioned that term and generally the public through McKay card you mean Carmen Kane there is no card mechanic and the term goes back 50 years before the invention of the automobile and a card mechanic is someone who can fix a card game, in other words, I can make anyone win or lose just over any set of circumstances presented to me and over al

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any type of card game that is other than a close-up or a card magician.

Magicians will learn certain tricks for the purpose of deceiving and entertaining, but those tricks will not give them any advantage in the moment. card table the techniques for the card table or literally thousands of times more difficult to develop there are thousands of very good card magicians there are a dozen and a half dozen world-class card mechanics card shark card store there is a Lots of slang terms to refer to this, but the bottom line when you play poker, blackjack, bridge, whatever game you want, make sure the cards start evenly so you have a deck, yes I do, yeah, okay, so in the casinos they give you about twenty seconds to give the deck three decks. a series of cuts so give your deck some slices or slices or sample okay okay come on let's just go straight to shuffling so this is basically a casino procedure rifle rifle and then you have subs called cutting on the run and you give him another rifle and a cut, that's basic casino procedure, so the deck should be shuffled pretty evenly, yeah, yeah, hold the cards in your hand off the table, okay, this one is look pretty, are you kidding?

Are we h two three four five six years old? Back to a perfect yes, what do you know? We did it right. Now I'm going to do what is called casino washing. I'm doing it face up and that's so the camera can see that the cards are shuffled because the magicians will do that. I have what are called shaved taper cards where the different sizes and can feel stick out, so this will ruin that. Now I want you to take, give him that shuffling deck, okay and put it here, we're just going to shoot, okay and oh, okay, cut the deck in half, just cut the deck, cut half, cut half, yeah, give me a oh, don't you think I cut you, give me a random number three four or five six seven seven one two three four five six seven and what is that card ten of spades, okay, tens are wild cards because in games of poker they have like deuces are wild cards, someone I'm crazy, well, baseball has several wild cards, very tense with panic, pass, you shuffle the way of the deck, switch with me now, okay, shuffle Shuffle it now, have you ever played black Jack?

I'm 21, yes, you have to see the movie. Am I about the 20 month old MIT students they took to the casinos anyway? I thought about the interview, you're talking about the movie with chemistry, you're talking about the real Interview you did with MIT. I was on a TV show where one of these world-renowned card counters was going to demonstrate how he can beat the house and what you didn't know was they bought me as a dealer, so we filmed two. hours never won a single one of it, so if you're a great dealer in a home game in the house game, you should bet your luck, okay, we'll burn a card, but I'll invest instead of take the money all the time.

I'm going to reverse it, how many players should we have at this table? three five players where do you want to sit? one two three four or five I'll sit for number four one two you're at Betty Beignets Place you're here number four player five player six Benny Binion will let you place a bet for any amount you want okay one two , three, and you chose four watches before I take your card, and this is the burned car to hold it. do something with those cards very quickly mix them up shuffle them I've suffered once put them back on their burn card okay and you were here number four yeah what's your first card ace of spades what's that card Queen of Hearts bingo just You came out with a million and a quarter but you just shuffled, you just cut, you chose five players, you chose to sit on number four and you ruined those cards right before I took yours and took care of business, you see, that's what I mechanic, I fix the card game What did I do to you, how does Las Vegas feel about you?

Oh, they love me. I'm a legend there. They are very the people who are in charge of catching cheaters. They are all very good friends of mine. let me ask you the opposite question, the guys that go and play in new casinos cheat against the players, they know the safest place to play in the casino in the world now, it's the casinos, particularly the straight ones, although you know, in our country. because the rules of the game are what they are the gaming licenses are so valuable that it's not worth risking your license to try to fool someone now, if you go back to before the 1980s when the mafia had more control, that wasn't necessarily the case.

Now, when the corporation has come in, probably the safest places again are going to be the casinos because the security that's interesting to us is that everything they have is kept pretty safe. The mafia never contacted 280 saying: Hello, Richard. Can we reach an agreement together? Oh, you

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to, you know, yeah, I have so many obstacles, do I really want to get into it? Why don't you share a pair with us? Well, it started around 1981. Okay, 1982. I was on a show called "That's Awesome," so people saw me all over the world and then the mob people saw if they could use dollar signs.

There was a guy who approached me first and

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me to show him what he could do. He was a mechanic and I showed him that he said: I'll give you $1,000. Status can work for me. This is 1982, so I saw a thousand all day was good money back then. I told him no, he said two thousand a day again. I politely refused and then he said how much. it will cost to buy it that was actually that's exactly what it said how much it cost me to buy it and I remember my memories of the Godfather movie where you know the guy wakes up with horses I bet he made a great deal that he could I didn't refuse so I said no thanks and that guy followed me for about six years trying to get me to work for him and then twice I saw him on the news and he and one of his partners from New York were jailed because one of the operations where he was raided another offer came from the Middle East started with a phone call voice with a very strong accent he wanted to talk to me about doing business and I told him to meet on board the boat where the nightly entertainment was where a boat came on board and there were five men of Middle Eastern descent, only one spoke English, the interpreter listened to the boss and then three other guys didn't say anything and said they threw a bunch of bills on my table so let's see what they knew.

Those cards so I sat down and started showing how I could win and some of the things that you and I were doing and then he says we'll give you ten thousand dollars a week, come to the Middle East and play cards all over the world. money. Apparently there were a lot of Texans playing. The deal would have involved getting involved with the oil business, obviously, and there were a lot of high state level games they were playing, they wanted me to control which direction the money was going and I said no thanks. I was rightly furious that you're turning down ten thousand dollars a week.

I told him yes, we argued. He spoke to his boss. His boss was angry with him. He's angry with me. And they're arguing back and forth and then he said. How about twenty thousand a week and I said no? They argue again now that his boss is getting really mad at him for not getting a deal. He's going thirty thousand he finally said how about a million dollars now? He didn't say if that was per week. but I said no and they were so irritated that they had just gotten their food that they threw their forks, their diapers on their napkins and they threw another wad of bills on my table and they left and when I got there, when I got the bills, I thought they were all like one or five, it was a stack of $100 bills, so I still had a good night, I didn't have to commit to someone else, I'm very rich, very successful and we were in his beautiful mansion on the top of the mountain and I I was telling him about this offer I had from the Middle East this million dollars if I had it since liberation and he told me not to accept it he said in a situation like that you will be one hundred percent used you said you understand what I'm trying to tell you , Richard, and for those who know one hundred percent, using means they kill when they're done with you.

I told him I know what it means. He said you know those Middle Eastern Dillmans. He said they own half the world. we own the other half, he said we can arrange for these card games to take place in the United States and we're back here and you know, I thought to myself, I thought, wow, I'll be 100% used, a Mountie buried in that foreign crap now, if you want, I can even tell you the scariest offer, but it will take a couple of minutes. I want to hear him tell us that I'm on a flight to the show and he was tapping next to me, so this guy.

He puts down the paper and says hello, Mr. Turner. I want to talk to you about doing a small business together and I thought about this kind of flight I was on. How did he know which seat he was sitting in? Anyway, he was a diamond broker from Sun City. South Africa and wanted to offer me two to three hundred thousand dollars to play cards in these games. There is a large Jewish community. He was his mother was Jewish. His father was Italian. And he wanted me to play these games to once again control the direction of the game. money and we had a conversation and it was nice to be flat he was flattered that someone recognized you and talking on the plane landed I thought that was the end that was just the beginning I'm in a hotel I just finished doing we did a lot of media I just finished some appearances on television and then I left my show and now I'm in my hotel and the phone rings, he answers the phone, he says Richard, it's me diamond, I'm downstairs, let me buy you dinner.

I nicknamed him. a mr. diamonds because he was a diamond merchant, so I called ourListen, obviously a lot of our viewers are entrepreneurs, but you shouldn't be an entrepreneur either because as an artist, I've found a way to monetize this and this is what you don't do for a living, for many it's very difficult to find a way to monetize your skill. and monetizing a close act is different from David Copperfield because you can put in ten thousand. People in an audience before mine is intimate nowadays we have video screenings, so when I was on tour in China, where we mentioned, you know they had more.

I was the most beautiful theaters in the world. I'm on the screen my show was projected on. four stories high and five stories wide, but the way I made it viable for me is that I became an asset, an additional asset to my performance venues; In other words, they hired me to entertain, but as a bonus I got them what the world knows. the industry has earned the media, you probably know what that means. I got them. They mentioned his name on prime-time television. Television news around the world. that's seven days, seven nights a week performing for six years straight and it's because every time I got them, Ripley's was amazing and I always made sure they mentioned the places I performed on those shows or in all the different media, so they had very expensive advertising. just because I've been there and replicated it in different places over the years and that's how I made it more viable and of course now with screening I don't need to do that as much anymore.

People told me there is no way. you can make a living and they were they were watching they were watching me he he wanted you're crazy if you think you can make it fit the decade he calls living with a deck of cards and so I did actually I had figured it all out probably two or three years before I actually did what I did when I got that first long engagement from 1979 to '84 on that riverboat and that changed the game, it didn't change, there was a story that when you were seven years old you liked to watch a hipster show because the boy did magic tricks and you sat in front of the television and your mother said hey what are you doing Richard and is that word the fascination came for you from that movie that you watch is that what it was for you, yes, it was a television show called Maverick starring James Garner, it was a Western and he was a gambler, he was a card player, the card shark and sometimes there were people at the table trying to cheat him he had cheated the cheaters and I thought which was great and then I wanted to be a player like Maverick we were very poor we had four games we had monopoly checkers chess in a deck of cards and I was the oldest thing about the oldest I had this thing about I didn't like losing so when we play cards for M&M's, when we get a nickel and can get a deck, I pack the M&M's, so we play cards for M&M's and the red one.

Being the most valuable, the brown one is the least valuable and I wanted all those M&Ms for my sisters, so we played cards and I started to notice that if I was told an extra card, it increased my percentages by like 20% and so I started to increase. with these ways of giving creating an advantage and that is where the obsession began in my sisters, they told us that their four friends, my brother is so good that he never loses and that only encouraged me to continue developing more and more things, your sister, she said. she lost her vision a year and three months after your something, yes, yes, hers was a couple of years after me, but we were both nine years old, she was five when we both got scarlet fever, by the way, which ones were the odds of that?

What happened was that all of us in primary school were in quarantine and they were given an antidote or and we had to take something else and we don't know and the thing is that that is the only thing they can think of that makes the vision go south because A The exact same thing happened to both of us and I was in my fourth grade class, the teachers were making fun of the lady. Gaston was riding on the blackboard and suddenly the chalk went on like someone took a raisin, smeared it on, it was just when I was going, I'm trying to do it and then I looked at my book and I couldn't see the stroller one and I miss yes and no I can see the board and they sent me to the nurse and that's what happened to me and my sisters the same thing in 60 seconds it's like a camera lens became blurry, you know?

One thing I realized is that when I told people who become the best at what they do, not just the best but the best, that they like what they do, you are not one of the, you are the best, There is a big difference, almost all of them. Of the ones I talked to, something happened that was extremely painful growing up and I think it happens to a lot of us right when it happens. Imagine God if you believe in a higher power or you know if you believe in Greek mythology like you do. They are testing you to see how you will react because this is your chance to let the world know what could be the best.

That's something that each of these guys has a very difficult story in that moment where they're testing you. You shared some of them in a documentary. What would you say? Some of them were. I know you said one of them. Your mother once had a book so close to your eyes that you were reading and your mother said: Do you have to put the books up? close to you and you remember that when you explained how many more of those cases happen and that stayed with you, one of them that stayed with me was that we were forced to watch a movie called Lord of the Flies in second grade. third grade fourth grade was about a group of kids who were stranded on an island and went feral and there was a boy in the only boy on the island named piggy, he was chubby, wore glasses and had asthma and the other kids.

They go in teams and they end up taking Kip Piggy and they end up killing him and I was always afraid of becoming Piggy, you know, because I would except I was skinny and blind and had asthma and then there was another show called Lost in Space Jonathan Harrison playing Mr. Smith and him were always the cowards hiding behind this rock while this dumb looking monster showed up while his little ten year old Billy Mumy went and saved the day and I was always afraid of being like that coward and me in Same thing with the Tarzan movies.

I watched Tarzan movies and there was always a scene where they were crossing a falling tree, you know, a cang and that's a thousand feet below and then someone always stopped no matter what you did. I don't look down and then there's always one person who stops and looks down, you know, screaming his head off. What if I'm not a coward? And it was because of the fact that I can't. I can't see how I'm going to do it. being able to deal with things, what's a woman that you're going to want to deal with? I want to be with a guy who can't see and that made me turn around and go to the other extreme and take extreme risks. fighting seven foot sharks - oh well, did you say fighting seven four sharks?

Yes, you want that story, tell it to me. I love hunting sharks and we headed out from nine mile island, which was pretty much okay, it was off the point of San Diego towards Mexico. waters, I spilled blood in the ocean and I was always the poem and had a Marlin pulse. Pole Marlin with a 12 foot, 120 steel cable, 40 pound steel leader, 120 pound line and the shark starts circling and then they grab your bait. and they took them off so he wouldn't throw the rest of the 12 feet with his hand because he couldn't go through the other thing, then another friend we called him gaffer, he would fool the Sharks in my van tranh D dick, he was our shot, he would shoot to his shooter. he would shoot if she can't kill a shark once it's in the boat and we had these red snapper heads and guts tied to the back of the boat on the seven foot blue you start cutting those things off so we pulled that rope.

I grabbed a grappling hook and put a bullet in it, but it's not dead because it just put it in the middle, so I told it to grab it, so I was holding that shark by the head and I reached out and grabbed them, I figure if I can put it on a rope around the tail, we won't lose it, so I'm sitting, I'm sitting there trying to strengthen that damn thing with one arm that lives in the other hand. I'm trying to tie a rope to his David. I thought it would take 30 seconds without six or eight minutes and finally we put a rope on his tail, we shot him, we brought him aboard the boat and then we started chewing on our gas lines, so he just sat there chewing and Randy says that He is someone better. stop that and we won't be able to get home because we're so many miles from the coast, so I said give me back my softball.

I grabbed my softball and said BAM, I fell and you know you hit that shark hard. enough and he finally calmed down, then about five minutes later he appeared again with the mouse up and down, Shuji preparing to bite our gas lines and I, the second time, when you know you did it, I threw the ice and everyone Anyway the shark stopped, I identified it. pommy not on that level with you what you're doing but the idea of ​​someone saying you couldn't do it the idea that if someone tried to feel bad for you you grow up poor people give you money they say oh poor you oh poor this and you don't even want to receive help, as a souvenir.

I had a challenge asking for help for a long time mm-hmm, it was like I don't love you, I don't want you to help me. I don't want you to help me. I don't need anyone's help. It seems like that's a positive thing, but it's also a bit of an Achilles heel because it limits you to how much you can grow because yes, you want to prove a point. You don't need anyone to see you because growing up you had something, but eventually if you want to do something big and be able to do it for a long time, you need help from other people, how did you overcome that and what was the processing like?

Was it your sister talking to you? Was it your wife talking to you? How did you say I don't care? I'm okay getting help now when I was the first one to ask me on the show called That's Amazing at the time it was one of the biggest shows on TV and they wanted me to walk with a white cane. I'm not going to do that, that's a warning. You know, blind people do that to your face sometimes and I didn't, I wasn't very polite. about this because I wanted my things to stand on their own, the thing is that as the years went by, the vision continued south and before I could, I could, when I fight, the less I can see how in the corner where it is my cell, its silhouette of my goal I have a very rare condition that was first documented in 1760, the child's Benes syndrome is French, English, it is Charles Bonnet syndrome and dr.

Oliver Sacks is a best-selling author, he has written several books on the subject, one was called hallucination, the other was called mind's eye and he calls this scene mind's eye, so my condition is of other people who have lost their seat only see black lost their sight see nothing I see a 360 degree kaleidoscope of beautiful vivid every shape of royal blue blues red green every shape of and when I'm in the red spectrum every shape from real red to eo2 all in the red spectrum and then sometimes they will blend into each other and then in between all of this is every subconscious image of you because it just floats so imagine yourself underwater with a light shining and breaking the prism. spectrum of light and in the water there are thousands of things floating, that is my normal state and you can lock me in a vault with no light from any source and I am still these things, these colors, since they are just as vivid and the good thing is that I can zoom in on any particular image, enlarge it, I take my beautiful wife to zoom in on her in a bikini, whatever you know and then or or I've designed houses, I've built terraces and I would design for my wife and Look, I was sitting in the chair and I look, look everything I could, it's like living in a virtual reality, okay, I need 12 12 by 12, so do it and then it has to be anchored here and I'll design a big giant project. without a single piece of paper at that time my dad was my cutter, I say dad, this and the board must be 192 and a quarter inches, we cut it, we built this giant platform of three giants, oh I don't know how many square feet all the different levels of layers and everything without a single sheet of paper and everything designed with this CBS Charles Bonnet syndrome now, suddenly, I couldn't see anything anymore, nothing that was real and I saw that I could like this, I put my hand in front of me face and I will see it digitized I guess it would be like something that doesn't look like meat.

I don't see meaty things in him. A piece of wood, but I'll see something come and go like a pendulum. Okay, I close my eyes. I see the Exactly the same thing with the colors just as vivid and then I didn't, I went like this and I couldn't tell that there was nothing left, in other words, out of the corner of my eye I couldn't see my hand move because and I didn't know that I had lost the rest of my side because my CBS created the vision I had then now I encounter everything under the sun.

My wife was sitting in recliners at night and the phone rings. I run there. answer the phone I ran to the corner of the wall I opened my head wide she looked up for a book and said now that one had to hurt when when you hang up the phone don't forget to clean the blood, so in our family, running into things is normal, it happens every month. I either have a big split face or a black eye and unfortunately it'salmost always before doing an interview, I somehow managed to not have one for you and anyway. she kept trying to contact me you need help you need to have you need someone to walk with you need to touch someone you know why I kept getting hurt and I finally realized that none of what I was seeing was real and it was such a big loss for me. as if you simply went from the year 2020 to zero.

What would that be like for you? The little that I had meant so much to me is what you mean to you because I went from being independent. disabled person to a dependent disabled person in the sense that I now needed someone to touch me while I walked. I needed someone to touch me or I needed to touch them to stop me from walking off the cliffs, which I did when I fell, actually my wife and I were where she was. We're addicted to roller coasters where we've climbed giant seven-foot, seven-mile-high mountains in Montana and whatever she does she'll do whatever I'll do she's a man she's men fantasy you've been married what 28 years 28 years 28 You have a son whose name, so your son's name, can you talk about that?

I mean, obviously, you came up with the name, no, you came up with my son's name, our son's name is ASA, belt of swords, AAS, like King ASA from the Old Testament. and King David's great-grandson was King ASA and the Bible says and ASA did what is good and right in the sight of the Lord his God he was one of the good kings and she and she said it means doctor or healer so my wife he said and his middle name could be spades and I thought he maintains it's perfect that's the perfect name for a trucker's son she says no no we're not going to name our son I said yes but she intervened and once he stepped in If she couldn't, yes, world famous by his name, people know him all over the world because they think he would kill for the name of Richard Turner's son, he has the coolest name in the world and he doesn't know He goes by Richard or Asa Turner. after his father and mother, he becomes ASA swords, his name is ASA swords, you see people who do very well in their career, with some who are not necessarily family members and then children and all that, so that is It becomes complicated and difficult for you to do, you become the best at what you do here, your marriage is 28 years old and it seems like you are having a great time together and then your son goes to where he is and is a good boy who does things. right things for himself. sister, then you become the best at this, but your sister, which is fascinating, is that you said she ran the largest construction company and I didn't in the state of Idaho, yeah, at one point they put more concrete than any another consonant construction. she didn't ram it, she ran it and owned it and her name was draft draft Dairy Construction, they built big dairies and then it became Draft Construction because you know she works on a very big project, ten, 20, 50 million dollars .

It is amazing the values ​​and principles that your parents transmitted to you and your sister. What were they if you said my parents or my mom or my dad always said these three things? What were those things? Well my dad was nothing but a positive influence on my sister I always said we had the best dad in the world my bra we all bought my brother says the same because he loved us unconditionally you know in Greek there are different types of love an eros boy agape store GUI what is the family love arrows philia which is a frenetic french family love and agape since they like a type of unconditional love at the level of God, he loved us without congested conditions and he just literally gave everything for us inside of us and he was just, he was nothing more than nothing. an encouragement and that's what it was like, hey, you cheat and that's how my dad addressed his son, hey, you cheat and you said it lovingly and he was very proud, you know, and that's how I got my nickname: Richard Turner . the trickster, so I used him for years, if you look at the old advertising stuff, it was always Richard Turner who cheated with the clothes, so you'd say the biggest thing about him was the "I love you guys" step, and his way to do it.

He did things, he did them perfectly, he had a 7th grade education and became one of the top engineers at several large companies, yes, and he started out as a welder, but he designed things and worked on projects, you worked in the jungle of Alan Shepard on the first spacecraft to the first space shuttle and he worked on things and in the nuclear-nuclear area and he would come up with ideas, but because he was working for them, he got the patent rights, he got a pat on the back If he wasn't, you know he could have been a rich man, but money meant nothing to him and everything he did, he did with such perfection that you would watch him grow up.

He would do it, someone would come and they wanted to build an engine or whatever. He would do it and then I would be very surprised and I thought: Wow! I wish he could do that. I wish I had a talent like that and then when would they do it? He wanted to pay him and spent the whole week on it. He would move out, never take a dime, so we talked briefly about Phil Ivey earlier. So what do you think? I spoke to Phil Hellmuth and I was also asking questions about him. Obviously you're out in the world, so you see a lot of the poker and all those other things that happen.

What do you think about what happened with Phil Ivey in London? Well, I think you are owed that money because there is what is called an advantage game and if the casinos are dealing with a game in which if they have something, there is a defect in the game with their cards and you take advantage of that, that is not It's considered cheating legally or ethically and you know he was playing by their rules and everything. he was very open and now that he's not getting paid, I think it's wrong that he deserves to be paid, so I want to finish with a coach that you said at the end of the documentary.

I know one thing I heard from the variety is the The documentary now leads to a movie they are making about your life and the people who were the people who approached you and who are making the movie about your life after watching Build a Mark Order Ski and Jane Fleming there with Court V He. he was the executive producer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, he won 17 Oscars with that trilogy alone, those three films and he produced, you know, 60 major films and they liked Delt and they were in the development stages of the film. towards a narrative you said something a documentary you said I think the loss of my vision ended up becoming a blessing it made me who I am and I'm grateful for it I like the way I see how long it took you to say that and Believe it 100% right that came from my beautiful wife Kim.

Going back to your previous question, when I had to face things, she would say that you have to overcome yourself. You have to let Excel help you from others. You're Richard Turner the blah blah blah you know you're not you're not impervious you're not Superman although sometimes I like to think I am but I'm not anyway she said you can't fate you can't deal with what you're not. willing to face, if you're not willing to face something, you can't deal with it, so she told me, basically, get over it, accept help from others and you know when, what the hell do I do.

I don't need it, I'm old now I don't care what people say about me I've left my mark and yes, it's been a good 25 years, but it's okay, it's been a long time, I'm still alone, yes Richard, any ending. Thoughts for Entrepreneurs I know you talked about MIT and said that the two curses are difficult to work with at Panatela. You mentioned the fact that the two biggest disabilities in the world are laziness and procrastination once you talk a little. a little bit about the mentality of how you plan to get to the point of being the best of the best I say don't let anyone tell you something is impossible, you know, have a healthy indifference, win, someone says something is impossible I say , brings the possible out of the impossible.

You know, I understand that from time to time we get handed Delta Betty, that's how we approach that hand, if we choose the dough, the wine, stop sitting in a container of pity, a lot of people do it or take your handicap, be it Whatever it is, turn it into an advantage. become a soldier and you know, become a warrior and do your best like we're talking to Phil Ivey Ivey, do your best, that's what separates the losers from the winners, you know, don't let anyone stop get in your way and don't hit him or knock him down in the way, smile at him and you'll know I had a you know I was like that for much of my now you're right, I'm a barn bear but let's have fun that's cool you know , for some of us you know we make the lamest excuses to say well you don't understand what I went through and what I did this and what I did that and we Use it as a crutch and I'll go to the next level and you're a great example of someone that you can go out and eliminate all the excuses.

By the way, we'll talk in a side note about how to look at your calendar. Your availability makes us invite you to our conference because as long as you perform for our guys so they can see, I'm sure after watching this interview people will be fascinated by the story, but they will also invite you to do a lot of performances. Okay, so how can we communicate? Do you contact your agent? Do they go to your website? Yes, my manager Kim at Richard Turner 50, calm down. My website is Richard Turner 52. That's how many cards are calm, but Kim is ahead of that and.

She talks directly to my manager and you know I speak and perform all over the world. I was just invited to do a television special in Japan. We are negotiating the contract on that and next week I will do it. Being with Apple and anyway, it's a lot of fun. I enjoy talking and for some reason people are inspired or encouraged when I do it, even though all I wanted to be was an artist, but now I'm a speaker so I do my thing with the car. I'm talking, so it's also entertaining, you know, your messages are multidimensional, it's not one dimension, you have a multidimensional message that can inspire well, it already entertains a lot of people.

I believe your story can also inspire tens of millions of people around the world. Also, if you haven't already, yeah, the day I did it I had a special for Japan, they said over a billion people have seen me now, 214 billion people is amazing, I know it's creepy, it's amazing , it's creepy, I think. Let me think about that maybe we won't see my old Mowgli mug, so by the way, ugly old mountain mug, you look like you belong in a movie, you look like a cut out of Chuck Norris, like a hot Burt Reynolds model that I should have. been in Hollywood making movies, you had, you had it all if you watch this documentary, you will see his physique and you will not believe that he has the chest of a bodybuilder, he has the arms of a bodybuilder, a wrestler by the way, there are a couple of things what I want you to do if you watch to see that you were inspired, you have to go see two things or really understand the story in the scope of things because there are videos of stories from him, some of these we think we didn't do. participate in this video here today and in this interview today, so do that too if you want to hire him, reach out, just send that email and then three comments below about what you got out of this interview and if you've.

You are not subscribed, click on the subscribe button to join Value Taemin and if you must have a Lord button, click on it too to join a notification team. That being said, Richard, thank you so much for being on Value Taming here with us, really thank you. you for coming, it's a pleasure and here's one thing, here's something you never do when you play for money, you never shuffle a deck. Unionism is a great honor to be here. Thank you very much for coming honey, thank you. Okay, I'm sure you played in different ones. types of poker games I have where the deck is passed around the table, you know where it is, make your deal, a deal is turned over, you just handed me a shuffled deck, so hey my deal, now look, I'm going to use the casino procedure I just did.

I showed it to you and I'm going to try to do what's called color bullet rifle, rifle, make a running cut, okay, and another rifle and a cut, now we're going to deal the hand to hold them, you choose after the fact, can you tell me how many. players five six seven how many are there on this table six six okay wait, put your card there, you are perfect 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 burn and we have a flop what are those 3 cards 9 of clubs King of Spades ten of clubs and the 10 is wild remember yes, it's been a while you chose what that is, well, what is that jack of hearts, so right now they are with the wild card, is it possible, exactly, what is that enough space, like this that there are two jokers on the table now?

Are you my partner sitting here and you have hand number 5 casually increasing the limit, let's see what you have in your pocket? It was that 10, what is that? So, the card you cut, I took care of business, so with that other one, well, something you would do. to have had a Royal Flush it would have actually taken five of a cup oh my God, we are in the wrong business maybe we have to go around like that in some casinos in Europe, but then you know what, all theworld knows that you are a moment