Oh Behave!

In the glitz and glamor of the Las Vegas Strip, where the lights never dim and the excitement never wanes, there exists a performer unlike any other, Piff the Magic Dragon.

Known the world over as The Loser of America’s Got Talent, English-comedian Piff the Magic Dragon has won the hearts of America through his decade long Las Vegas residency at The Flamingo and non-stop touring. The show is a masterful blend of stand-up comedy, and jaw-dropping magic, all delivered with a touch of that dry, British wit. Each performance is unique, with Piff’s quick wit and improvisational skills ensuring that no two shows are ever the same.

On May 17th 2024, Piff was named Magician of the Year, by the Academy of Magical Arts AKA The Magic Castle. Previous winners have included Penn & Teller, David Blaine and Siegfried & Roy. The winner of TBS' Tournament of Laughs and voted Variety’s Top Ten Comics to Watch, Piff has played Radio City Music Hall, Sydney Opera House and London Zoo. He was the first act to win Best Comedian, Best Magician, and Best Headliner at the Best of Las Vegas Awards. He toured as a supporting act for Mumford and Sons and is the only reptile to appear on the cover of their Grammy award winning album.

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Announcer: This is Pet Life Radio.

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Announcer: It's Oh Behave with Arden Moore.

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Announcer: This show that teaches you how to have harmony in the household with your pets.

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Announcer: Garner great pet tips and have a dog on fur flying fun time.

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Announcer: So get ready for the pause and applause as we unleash your Oh Behave host, America's pet edutainer, Arden Moore.

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Arden Moore: Welcome to the Oh Behave show on Pet Life Radio.

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Arden Moore: I'm your host, Arden Moore.

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Arden Moore: Direct from the glitz, the glamour of Las Vegas, we welcome the in capital letters magician of the year.

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Arden Moore: Now, he mixes up stand up comedy with mind melting magic.

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Arden Moore: What I love about him most of all is that he features on stage the world's only magic performing chihuahua.

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Arden Moore: You know Mr.

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Arden Moore: Piffles.

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Arden Moore: Now you know who I'm have on my show.

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Arden Moore: Please welcome to our show the one and only Piff, the Magic Dragon.

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Arden Moore: I am so excited to have you on the show, Piff.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Thanks, Arden.

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Arden Moore: Can I call you Piff?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Sure.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah, call whatever you want.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: It's great to be here.

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Arden Moore: Thanks for having me.

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Arden Moore: Everybody, you know him.

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Arden Moore: He grabbed my attention on America's Got Talent.

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Arden Moore: And I got to tell you, you're still my favorite and I'm not even sucking up.

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Arden Moore: You don't know me.

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Arden Moore: I used to be an investigative reporter.

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Arden Moore: So for me to say that, declare that, you must have put me under a spell.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah, exactly.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: I've definitely, I'm definitely using my powers in some way.

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Arden Moore: I think so.

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Arden Moore: I think so.

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Arden Moore: Can I please have the winning lottery numbers?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah, that's why, that's why I'm still working.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: I mean, I have them.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: I just love my job so much.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: I carry on.

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Arden Moore: Well, let's talk about a little moolah.

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Arden Moore: This is why we had you on.

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Arden Moore: This is an incredible story.

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Arden Moore: Everyone, Piff loves dogs and he loves Mr.

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Arden Moore: Piffles.

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Arden Moore: We're going to get into his story in a minute, but he's part of your act and we can't slow the time machine down on our dogs, unfortunately.

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Arden Moore: I have a dog who's nine and I want to hold her in place, Kona, but you're on a tour to raise $60,000.

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Arden Moore: Can you tell everybody the name of your tour?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: It's worse than that.

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Arden Moore: It's worse than that.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: The tour is called, It Cost $60,000 to Clone My Dog and now I need to make the money back.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So I've spent the money already.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Arden, I'm already in the home for $60,000.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Now I'm trying to make that money back.

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Arden Moore: So folks, we're going to find out what this is all about, but we got to pay for this show by taking a quick break.

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Arden Moore: You all know the drill.

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Arden Moore: I usually say sit and stay, but I'm going to say hocus pocus.

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Arden Moore: We'll be right back.

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Announcer: Time for a paws.

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Announcer: Four furry ones actually, sit and stay.

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Announcer: Oh Behave will be right back.

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Arden Moore: Paws up, Pet Pals.

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Arden Moore: Arden Moore here, your host of the Oh Behave show.

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Announcer: Let's Talk Pets on petliferadio.com.

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Announcer: Oh Behave is back with more tail wagging ways to achieve harmony of a household with your pets.

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Announcer: Now back to your fetching host, America's Pet Edutainer, Arden Moore.

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Arden Moore: Welcome back to the Oh Behave Show on PetLife Radio.

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Arden Moore: I'm your host, Arden Moore.

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Arden Moore: I am Jazz because we have Piff the Magic Dragon.

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Arden Moore: You guys, you know him.

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Arden Moore: He's at the Flamingo in Vegas.

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Arden Moore: He has been awing and ooey for over a decade.

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Arden Moore: But what I love about you is your love of your dog, Mr.

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Arden Moore: Piffles.

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Arden Moore: And he's now 16?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah, he's 16 and a half.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah, he's going to be 17 in November.

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Arden Moore: Nice.

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Arden Moore: Now, you were named the Magician of the Year for 2024.

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Arden Moore: That's pretty awesome.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: That was amazing.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah.

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Arden Moore: I think Mr.

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Arden Moore: Piffles got something you didn't get from Wayne Newton.

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Arden Moore: What's that?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He did.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Mr.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Piffles got the key to the city of Las Vegas.

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Arden Moore: Was it shaped like a dog bone?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: It wasn't.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: But I'm not sure what it opens.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: But yeah, they gave the key to the dog and I got nothing.

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Arden Moore: Well, you took the risk of teaming up with the dog.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: I mean, he deserves it.

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Arden Moore: I love that.

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Arden Moore: I love that.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: I got him in 2009.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Okay.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He was about a year and a half old.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He was a rescue, which as we all know is cheaper, much cheaper.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: They just given them away.

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Arden Moore: Well, until later.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Exactly.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He was in a bit of a state when I found him.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He had gunk around his eyes.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He had bad teeth.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: His fur was all matted.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: His fur was all matted and he wasn't in a very good condition.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: I didn't know whether to adopt or not.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: My friend said to me, look, just get him because you'll be able to get him out of the bad situation he's in now and then you can get him fixed up.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: If it doesn't work out, find a new home for him, but at least you've got him out of the bad situation he was in.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So I just did it.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: I just was okay.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Well, what's the worst that can happen?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And I took him to the vets.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: First thing, he got his teeth done, which is the first thing you do in show business.

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Arden Moore: Oh yeah, absolutely.

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Arden Moore: And you gave him a good name too, right?

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Arden Moore: You got to give him a showbiz name.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: I'm going to give him a showbiz name.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: His original name was Alfie.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: We named him Mr.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Piffles and he went in the show.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And at the beginning, he didn't really do much, but the audience loved him.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: As soon as day one, the audience loved him.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And then after like working together for a year, suddenly my agent came to see his show and she was like, that dog has got like comic timing now.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He's got this amazing deadpan and he's just hilarious to watch.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And he turned into this amazing dog, you know, and suddenly like he looked incredible when he was on the right food and his coat was all, you know, his coat was all shiny.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And he was like strutting around with his new teeth.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And so he became this huge part of the show and I loved it as well because I just like broken up with a girlfriend when I got him.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So I was like, Oh, I'm just going to concentrate on my work.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And I'm going to, it's going to be me and Mr.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Piffles on the road together.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: We don't need anyone else.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And so it was just great for my life.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And I've never had a dog before I've had cats and they're just so indifferent.

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Arden Moore: Oh, interesting.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And big dogs are, you know, there were a lot for me.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: There's like, yeah.

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Arden Moore: How much does Mr.

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Arden Moore: Piffles weigh?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Four and a half pounds.

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Arden Moore: Okay.

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Arden Moore: He's compact Chihuahua.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So having him, I could just like in the UK where I would tour, I would tour all over the UK and you can't bring dogs anywhere.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: It's not pet friendly like America or Canada is.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So I'd have to like, you know, shove him down my sweater and like check into hotels.

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Arden Moore: Good thing you didn't have a Doberman.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Exactly.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So we like formed this bond over like, over all these tours that we did for years and years.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: I was only a dragon for about a year when I got him.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And it takes a long time to get good as a dragon.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So I was a terrible dragon before I met him.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And then together we got good.

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Arden Moore: So you call yourself Piff the Magic Dragon.

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Arden Moore: I've been to Hanalei Bay.

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Arden Moore: It's pretty nice.

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Arden Moore: I haven't seen you there.

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Arden Moore: I was hoping to see you there.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: I was exiled.

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Arden Moore: How would you describe yourself?

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Arden Moore: Because you are magic, but you are more than magic.

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Arden Moore: It is very creative.

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Arden Moore: And then you add a dog with good teeth.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: A dog with amazing teeth.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Well, I thought like what happened was I was doing my first hour long show in Edinburgh, in the UK.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And I just thought, oh, this is kind of like, it's just missing something.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Just missing, like it was me as a dragon doing magic.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And I was like, you know what this act needs?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: A gimmick.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So I got Mr.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Piffles and that like was the final piece of the puzzle and it all came together.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: But yeah, I do magic, but I'm also, I also have to deal, I have to interact with the audience.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And I found humans to be quite tiring.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Despite my best efforts, they just seem to.

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Arden Moore: Is that why you would eat a sandwich?

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Arden Moore: Well, you were doing your act in front of Simon Cowell on America's Got Talent.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah, I've got things to do.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And who really wants to listen to people judging you about how good they think the act was, right?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: It's much better just to eat a sandwich.

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Arden Moore: I think that's great.

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Arden Moore: So are you from England or Scotland?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: England originally.

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Arden Moore: Okay, okay.

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Arden Moore: So how did you get on America's Got Talent?

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Arden Moore: Cause that was when it's, and I was rooting for you.

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Arden Moore: I really was.

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Arden Moore: I thought of all the acts, you had the most comic, most creative and you had a canine.

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Arden Moore: You got me at three C's.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: What happened was I worked my way up in the UK and I was doing okay there.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And out of the blue, I got a phone call saying, would I be interested in doing a show in Las Vegas?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And I was a small part of a big show and got offers to be a small part of a big show.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So I said, yeah, because Vegas is like the home of magic.

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Arden Moore: Exactly.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And I moved out to Vegas, left my UK life behind, signed a 10-year contract and I was in a show and the show lasted for seven months and then it closed.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So I was stranded.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Mr.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Piffles and I was stranded in Las Vegas.

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Arden Moore: I think that's a Nicolas Cage movie, isn't it?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah, it should be.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He hasn't made it yet.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So I thought, I want to stay in Vegas, I want to get my own show.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And the best way to do that is to become as famous as I can, to become as famous as I can be, become in as short as possible time.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And the answer to that was America's Got Talent.

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Arden Moore: Oh my gosh, that was great.

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Arden Moore: Welcome back to the Oh Behave Show on Pet Life Radio.

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Arden Moore: I am your host, Arden Moore, and I've had a lot of celebrities on my show.

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Arden Moore: Betty White, Jennifer Aniston, all these people.

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Arden Moore: But I have a magic dragon on my show and he is awesome.

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Arden Moore: His name is Piff the Magic Dragon.

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Arden Moore: What I love about his best magical act is his love for his dog, Mr.

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Arden Moore: Piffles.

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Arden Moore: What are some of the things you've done with Mr.

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Arden Moore: Piffles on stage?

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Arden Moore: I saw a whole bunch of things, but I want you to tell people what you've done.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: None of these are going to sound good.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He's been levitated, he's been laminated.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: We shot him out of a cannon.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He escaped from a straitjacket for a while.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He does a thing where a member of the audience names any drink they like and he pees it into a cup, and the audience member has to drink it.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: But it is that drink, it's the drink they named.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So he can pee any drink.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He could probably do a chocolate milk as well, but that's a different story.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So he's very talented.

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Arden Moore: You've got to work with him, Zoe.

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Arden Moore: So what's his personality like?

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Arden Moore: Because you had him at Dog.

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Arden Moore: I mean, you rescued him.

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Arden Moore: That's great.

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Arden Moore: But to have him in front of a stage, lights, all that.

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Arden Moore: How did you guys bond and finish each other's sentences?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah, we've played works.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: I've had him in the show for 15 years now.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: We've probably done about 3,000 shows together.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: We've done 1,700 of those just in Vegas.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He's amazing because he just doesn't get phased by anything.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: I did a show with Mumford and Sons, the band.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: We were in front of 20,000 people.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: They were all screaming, going crazy.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: I turned around and looked over at my little table where he sits, and he was asleep.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He was snoring.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He's just an incredible, he's just one in a million.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: We got him a little brother as an understudy.

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Arden Moore: Well, that's where I want you to go into the naming and all that, because you know they can't last forever.

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Arden Moore: There's no magic act for eternity for our dogs.

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Arden Moore: So tell us the first dog you tried.

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Arden Moore: I love the names.

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Arden Moore: I see a pattern, but tell us that.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Well, we've got the first dog.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: We found him on eBay.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He was another rescue, and we picked him up and we called him Tui, for number two, but also Mr.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Piffles and Tui.

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Arden Moore: Okay, I gotcha.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Tui Piffles.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So he was the polar opposite to Piffles.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Whenever we brought him near a stage, he'd start shaking.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: It was crazy.

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Arden Moore: Yeah, that's not good.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He was the happiest dog around the house, but he just hated everything about the lights.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So very quickly, he became in charge of morale, because he was a very happy dog when he's not on stage.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He was good because he ran around and he kept Piffles active for a long time and was like a great little baby brother.

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Arden Moore: Didn't he meet Elton John?

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Arden Moore: Didn't he have like a wild weekend with Elton John?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He did have a wild weekend with Elton John.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Uh-oh.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He did and he was never the same, but I'm not sure what happened.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah, he did.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He has some show business stories too, Piffles.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He did one show where Mr.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Piffles was late coming home from the UK, so he had to do a Vegas show.

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Arden Moore: Okay.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He hated every minute of it, so he never, we're like, okay buddy, you're fine.

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Arden Moore: That's very kind of you to know that.

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Arden Moore: Not everybody is a showbiz dog.

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Arden Moore: What about Threador?

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Arden Moore: This one's funny.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Don't even get me started on Threador.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: We get Threador as a puppy and we raise him.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: By the way, all this time, Piffles is like a five pound white long haired chihuahua.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So that's what we're looking for.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: We have all these emails out, and is there any shelters we ever come across, we do any work for, we're always saying, look, if you find any dogs like Mr.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Piffles, please tell us.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And we were just getting nowhere.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So we found this dog, we called him Three Adore, and he had the perfect temperament.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: His temperament is perfect.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Absolutely perfect.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Couldn't ask for a better show business dog.

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Arden Moore: Feeling good.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So he gets to five pounds and he looks the part, and we think this is it, home run.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Then he keeps growing.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He gets to 10 pounds and we're like, okay, now this is the problem, because he doesn't fit in the props.

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Arden Moore: He's kind of like an old Elvis, right?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He's like Las Vegas era Elvis, and he's 15 pounds now, he won't fit in any of the props.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: We're feeding them all the same.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So we get his DNA test on and he's 100 percent Chihuahua.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So who knows?

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Arden Moore: Is he the Shaquille O'Neal of Chihuahua?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah, exactly.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Our vet said, well, every once in a while, there's just a big gene Chihuahua, which I've never heard of, but it seemed to me like he was covering for Threodore.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: But Threodore, he's like the most loving dog of all time.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So he's part of our family too.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: At this stage, I'm like, you know what guys, we can't keep going.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: We've got to take some decisive action here.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: I'd read about Barbra Streisand cloning her dog.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: I'd read this study in South Korea.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: They did a study with bomb detecting dogs, bomb sniffing dogs, which are apparently the most difficult of all assistance dogs to train.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: They did a study where they cloned some successful bomb sniffing dogs, and they also just brought in other dogs that they would normally train.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: It's something like, I don't know the exact number, but it was something like as diverse as the random dogs, it was like 5 percent success rate, and the cloned dogs was something like 90 percent success rate.

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Arden Moore: Wow.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: I was like, okay.

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Arden Moore: Your brain is thinking.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Right.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: There's so much about Piffles that I love.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Now, of course, I'm not trying to replace Piffles, because you can't do that.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Every animal is unique.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: But a clone is like a genetically identical twin.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: That's what you're getting.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So I thought, well, maybe some of the traits will be carried over.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So we cloned him and we got a year and a half ago, we got this tiny eight week old Chihuahua, and we raised him over a year.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: The crazy thing was, he doesn't look like Piffles now, and he looks identical to Piffles a year and a half.

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Arden Moore: That's-

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah, it's really crazy.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: When I go back and look at old photos and compare them side by side, they're identical.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: They sleep the same way in the car, they sleep the same way on the furniture.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: All these very similar traits they have.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Now, Piffles had a pretty rough start, and he was like, I think he was kicked around by a couple of his owners and not very happy.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So he would always be very protective and things like that.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Our new dog, who's called Fortune, for number four.

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Arden Moore: You have to say that and then spell the name, because there's a pattern you've established.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yes, it's F-O-U-R-T-U-N-E, because he's dog number four and he cost a fortune.

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Arden Moore: That's a perfect name.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He's just been brought up in a happy household with these three other dogs.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So that's the big difference is that he's much more easygoing and friendly than Piffles was.

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Arden Moore: Well, and your timing is good because you're on tour soon, and you're going to be going across North America between now and I think October 26th.

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Arden Moore: So tell us about the role that Mr.

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Arden Moore: Piffles and Fortune will have in it.

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Arden Moore: I have to say that with emphasis.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: In Vegas, Fortune is learning the whole show.

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Arden Moore: Awesome.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So he's beginning to take it over now from Piffles, and Piffles is going to retire from the Vegas show at some point in the near future.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: But on tour, we do a different show.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Totally different show, all different tricks, all different jokes.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So on tour, we're doing a show called, It Cost Me $60,000 to Clone My Dog, and Now I Need to Make the Money Back.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So we're going to demonstrate how Mr.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Piffles and Fortune are telepathically linked.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Whatever Piffles sees, Fortune knows, and vice versa.

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Arden Moore: Can you give us an example?

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Arden Moore: Because that's our long marquee.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah, exactly.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So we're going to make sure Fortune, he's going to be surrounded by a shroud of mystery, so that he can't see anything.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He's going to be inside, and somebody would choose any word from any book, and they'll just show it to Mr.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Piffles.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Next thing you hear is a chalk on a chalkboard, chalk, chalk, chalk, chalk, chalk, chalk, chalk.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Out of the shroud of mystery, we take out Fortune who has written the exact word on the chalkboard, without even being able to hear or see what Mr.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Piffles is looking at.

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Arden Moore: How do you come up with this?

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Arden Moore: And I know you can't tell your trade secrets, Piff the Magic Dragon, P-T-M-D, but I mean, seriously, where did you get this comic creativity from?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: One of the fun things about having Piffles is that you can kind of like think up funny scenarios for him, and then you can make tricks around them.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So that's like one of the places.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So like the idea of having like two cloned dogs who are identical straight away was like, were they going to be the greatest mind-reading acts of all time?

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Arden Moore: No other act has that.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: No.

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Arden Moore: Wow.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Nobody else has two genetically identical dogs in their act.

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Arden Moore: That keeps you alive in Vegas, doesn't it?

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Arden Moore: And on tour.

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Arden Moore: Yeah.

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Arden Moore: Move over, Taylor Somebody.

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Arden Moore: What's her name?

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Arden Moore: Taylor Somebody.

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Arden Moore: I mean, Eris Tour.

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Arden Moore: You got the Piffles Tour.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: You got the Piffles and Fortune double act.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And Fortune's stage name is Mr.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Piffles 2.0.

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Arden Moore: Oh, perfect.

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Arden Moore: Because of the cloning.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: And it's worked out so well that we're actually expecting another one over the next 12 months.

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Arden Moore: So you're going to have a fifth dog?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He's going to be called Fival.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: We want Fortune to have an understudy so that Fortune can have nights off.

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Arden Moore: You heard it here for a Sunday show.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: It's been a lot for Mr.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Piffles carrying the weight of my career for the past 15 years.

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Arden Moore: If you weren't doing this, what would you do?

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Arden Moore: What was going to be your safety job?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: I don't know.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Back in the day, I had a job in computers and I would be like the help desk you call.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: But I was terrible at it.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: This is not the guy you want helping you out.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Maybe I start my own chihuahua farm and we just breed chihuahuas and they would tend the fields and grow strawberries or something.

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Arden Moore: What is it about the chihuahua that you really love, Piff?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: They're like cats with love.

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Arden Moore: Cat that's full of love and I got a part chihuahua.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: They got unconditional cats.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: They're unconditional cats.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: They're amazing.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: I grew up with cats and every time I walk into the room, Mr.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Piffles is just, he can't believe that I came back for him.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He's, oh my God, I thought you'd left forever and you're here.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: This is the best day ever.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: So that's what I love.

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Arden Moore: How have the Chihuahuas, all four of them, made you, I know you're great on stage, but how have they made you a better person?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Well, I had Mr.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Piffles on my own for probably five, six years.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: That wasn't the first time I had to really consider another being.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Now, jade, who is also in the show and is an amazing Las Vegas showgirl, she does the heavy lifting with all four of these dogs because it's a full-time job looking after them.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: They're great, but it's just chaos.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: But when I first had Piffles, he definitely taught me how to love somebody else unconditionally.

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Arden Moore: Now, he's got some miles.

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Arden Moore: We know about Vegas and you've been to England.

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Arden Moore: Can you tell us some other places that you have toured with Mr.

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Arden Moore: Piffles?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: I've toured all over Canada with him as well and all over the UK.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Then I went to Australia and to New Zealand.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: When we went there, we had to borrow dogs.

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Arden Moore: How did that work out?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: It was terrible.

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Arden Moore: Yeah.

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Arden Moore: There's not another Mr.

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Arden Moore: Piffles unless you clone him.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: No.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: One time somebody lent me a cat.

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Arden Moore: How did that work out?

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Piff the Magic Dragon: The cat, no interest in magic.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: They have no interest.

00:23:32.900 --> 00:23:35.580
Arden Moore: You should have slipped him some catnip, man.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: He was disgusted by the profession.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: It was beneath him and at the end of the act, he's in a little dragon costume and the last thing he did, he just dug his nails into me and he used that leverage to shoot himself out of the dragon costume, leaving me holding this empty costume on stage and he ran out through the back.

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Arden Moore: So how did you adapt on stage?

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Arden Moore: Everybody's watching you.

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Arden Moore: They think that's part of the act.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah, I just took a bow and left, made a cat disappear.

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Arden Moore: So this tour coming up, this is a big one for you.

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Arden Moore: I like that you're going to be a little different than you are for the folks that love to see you in Vegas.

00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:15.340
Arden Moore: You start in Calgary and you end in Waukegan, Illinois.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Yeah.

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Arden Moore: Nice.

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Arden Moore: You're in the heartland, America's heartland.

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Arden Moore: I like that.

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Arden Moore: You're going to be in Dallas on September 12th.

00:24:22.440 --> 00:24:24.280
Arden Moore: I actually live in Dallas.

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Piff the Magic Dragon: Oh, are you going to come?

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Arden Moore: I'm going to sure try.

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Arden Moore: I should be home.

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Arden Moore: I travel not like you, but I travel a bit.

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Arden Moore: But I'll talk to your people, okay?

00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:35.740
Arden Moore: Because I would love to see you on stage.

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Arden Moore: Hey, that's it for our show today.

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Arden Moore: I am so jazzed that we had Piff the Magic Dragon.

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Arden Moore: We learned a lot about him and his great dogs.

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Arden Moore: Please check him out at the Flamingo in Vegas and get on that tour.

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Arden Moore: He's got a tour coming now through October 26th, so check it out, be there.

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Arden Moore: I want to give a shout out to my producer, Mark Winter.

00:24:54.760 --> 00:24:57.560
Arden Moore: He is the surgeon of sound.

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