Shin Lim

Before Pandemic, the show was very much like almost like a variety show.

So I would perform and then my opener would perform.

And it would kind of go back and forth like this.

no storyline nothing just straight up like here's a magic trick and uh my wife casey she was like she was like you know the one thing you always needed to make the show like different is to add some sort of a story to give people emotion and i i really thought about that and so when we opened i uh the show's kind of like completely different and so it doesn't really feel like a variety show even though actually in its essence it still is even the one at the venetian it's still a variety show

But it doesn't feel like it.

It feels like a very cohesive, linear thing.

Yeah, connect with it.

That's the main thing.

You want people to connect with it and feel something rather than just being surprised or being puzzled by something or laughing.

Those are just other emotions that are...

not easy to to grab out of people or to make it make them feel that um but you know you can do that through like comedy so many different ways of doing that yeah but the hard thing is to make someone connect to the actual show like really feel like they know what you were going through because they went through the same thing as well yeah and so that that's what story can do yeah has social media impacted how you uh arrange your shows because now people are performing their tricks online right it's

Um, maybe.

I think if I see a trick that is super common on social media or let's say someone already taught it and it got a lot of views or something like that, then I'm like, okay, the normal people have seen this trick before.

I'll take it out.

Yeah.

Unless I really like it.

That makes sense.

There are tricks that I really like and I'll just never remove.

No, no, no.

Because I think that's how I learned.