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Apollo Robbins

Apollo Robbins

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Nov 7, 2026

John TurturroGUEST
5:23
I was practicing.
John TurturroGUEST
5:24
And Apollo Robbins, who I read a profile of in The New Yorker, who is a brilliant magician, pickpocket, who had half-brothers who were criminals.
John TurturroGUEST
5:36
He really helped me, gave me exercises and worked with me.
John TurturroGUEST
5:40
Usually, pickpockets have worked as teams, a man and a woman, a lot of the time.
John TurturroGUEST
65:43
So I really liked that.
John TurturroGUEST
65:46
And I met this guy, Apollo Robbins, which I read a profile in the New Yorker and Noah and I contacted him and he helped us a lot.
John TurturroGUEST
65:56
He helped me a lot.
John TurturroGUEST
65:57
Gave me all kinds of exercises.
John TurturroGUEST
3:09
I was practicing.
John TurturroGUEST
3:10
And Apollo Robbins, who I read a profile of in The New Yorker, who is a brilliant magician, pickpocket, who had half-brothers who were criminals.
John TurturroGUEST
3:22
He really helped me, gave me exercises and worked with me.
John TurturroGUEST
3:26
Usually pickpockets have worked as teams, a man and a woman, a lot of the time.
John TurturroGUEST
24:53
He's a person who takes care of people, too.
John TurturroGUEST
24:56
But I read a lot of the books, and I read a profile of Apollo Robbins in The New Yorker, who's a magician pickpocket.
John TurturroGUEST
25:04
And he agreed to help me, first on Zoom and then in person.
John TurturroGUEST
25:10
And he comes from a family of thieves.
Chris RamseyGUEST
11:02
And I'm still I'm actually aware of certain magicians who've consulted for, you know, these three letter agencies.
Chris RamseyGUEST
11:09
And I think if I'm not mistaken, I think Apollo Robbins, who's like the world's best pickpocket, was often used as in a consulting role, I think.
Stephen DienerHOST
11:19
That's
Chris RamseyGUEST
11:19
wild.
Noah SeganGUEST
2:53
There's some academic research and, you know, sociological, criminological research that I did a lot of.
Noah SeganGUEST
3:01
But it wasn't really until we got into pre-production and John Turturro found a magician who happens to have the perfect skill set of a pickpocket, don't ask why, named Apollo Robbins, who is an incredibly brilliant personality and magician and pickpocket who actually taught him the skill set to pick the pockets.
Noah SeganGUEST
3:25
And it was John who we were worried about because he would show up to the production office and he would go, oh, you know, I was on the train on the way over here and I saw somebody, they had a tote bag.
Noah SeganGUEST
3:34
It was just open and I could see inside there and I could really just, and I'm like asking Johnny, our line producer, if he can put a line item in the budget to bail John out in case he needed it, which I think we were prepared to do.
Brandon VickHOST
5:31
The article says Totoro trained with a sleight of hand artist to learn the tricks of his onscreen train.
Brandon VickHOST
5:37
Apollo Robbins is like a concert pianist to Totoro told the New York times.
Brandon VickHOST
5:41
I'm never going to be that.
Brandon VickHOST
5:43
I mean, he could take my watch off and every single time I don't feel it.
John TurturroGUEST
5:22
He wrote him.
John TurturroGUEST
5:23
wonderful script and apollo robbins who is a magician pickpocket uh helped me a lot uh with the actual physical doing of it noah had a lot of uh research books about real pickpockets men and women that usually work with teams and it's uh it's a skill that that was passed on and uh for you know for hundreds of years really when people carried cash and wore certain kinds of you know tie pins that were diamonds and rings.
John TurturroGUEST
5:56
And rings were actually hard, but watches.
Noah SeganGUEST
5:58
Yes,
John TurturroGUEST
18:56
Yeah, I read a lot of books.
John TurturroGUEST
18:57
I read this book, Whiz Mob, and then I met this guy, Apollo Robbins.
John TurturroGUEST
19:01
I read a profile of him in The New Yorker, and he's a magician pickpocket, and he grew up around sort of a family that... committed crimes.
John TurturroGUEST
19:13
And he took me through everything, but he's like a psychologist too.
Noah SeganGUEST
6:02
And there was some sort of technical aspects to it there as well.
Noah SeganGUEST
6:05
But then he had read an incredible profile on a man named Apollo Robbins, who had been a pickpocket, or I should say, had mastered that skill set and is now a magician, a sleight-of-hand magician.
Cody DericksCORRESPONDENT
6:25
All right.
Cody DericksCORRESPONDENT
6:26
Because it

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