The Most Dangerous Card Shark I’ve Ever Met | Jason Ladanye #486 | The Way I Heard It (opens in new tab)

The other night, I watched a man convince a room full of skeptics that reality itself might be negotiable\. His name is Jason Ladanye \(pronounced “La-DON-yee,” which I only mention because I’ve been saying it wrong in my head for two years\)\. He’s a card mechanic, magician, storyteller, student of human nature, and—if I’m being completely honest—a deeply unsettling dinner companion\. We sat down after his show in Oxnard, where I watched otherwise rational adults develop facial tics while Ja...