Anthony Metivier
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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I often think of the David Lynch Lost Highway movie where Bill Pullman says, you know, I like to remember things the way I remember them, not necessarily the way they happened.
And then that's naturally what happens when we tell these stories.
But as I remember it anyway, I was dealing with a very bad clinical depression while I was doing my PhD.
And rather than do anything destructive, I wound up at the campus one day.
David Blaine was all the rage.
And in this deep, dark winter, there's a place at York University campus called York Lanes where inside they kind of
protect you from the Canadian winter with what looks like a street, a city street inside.
And it's nice and warm.
And these guys came and did street magic to me.
And this revived an old interest that I had when I was a kid in magic.
And so I went home and I was watching videos and I stumbled across what's called the Holy Grail of Magic, which is any card at any number where the spectator could name a card and name a number and it'll be there.
But the deck has to be memorized.
And I thought, there's no way I can do this.
I can't even read a sentence of this
dense philosophy that I'm responsible for.
But I tried it anyway.
And lo and behold, I memorized a deck of cards.
And I thought instantly, if I can memorize a deck of cards, I can get back into this.
It just gave me this weird light in my head too.
And later I found out there's research that actually people have done that confirms this.
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