0:00 [Music] it's the end of a ████ era guys we can all take a knee and collectively be a little bit sad right now because the official wizard of new zealand what the ████ is this wait new zealand has a wizard official the official one california doesn't have an official one i'm not doing it right i think we should we got warlocks the of the ku klux klan or whatever the official those are wizards warlocks oh yeah they are wizards they're called wizards or head warlocks right yeah warlocks is part of kkk huh i didn't know i thought it was just wizards warlocks and wizards definitely wizards learned something new uh so the unfortunately the official wizard of new zealand perhaps the only state appointed wizard in the world wow has now been removed from the public oh payroll which is the end of a 23-year
0:52 legacy in which he was this ████ wizard was on public payroll for being a wizard what's his job that's wizardry that's ████ magical was it blessing ████ was he missing ████ what the did they import him that was on public payroll oh that's very gandalf oh yeah very good it is based off of war of the rings no they got the british flag though huh the british flag no new zealand no but look at their flags is that the australian flag it's the same i think they they they like they like the uk a lot that's the union jack fans of the uk they're real big fans i think that's a funny way to say it but sure don't see him again he looks so happy i wonder if that's before or after retirement this is one back when he had a talisman he had to sell that recently oh ████ why is he got a witch hat i don't like wizard hat dude it's a wizard hat what's his responsibility that's what i'm saying why do you ask that part is someone else
1:43 getting appointed uh no there will not be there will not be a fulfillment it's a one-off first and last his name is ian breckenberry channel ian he's 88 years old well his last name is channel he's good for 88. um he had been contracted to christ church city council for the past two decades to promote the city through quote acts of wizardry and other wizard-like services at the cost of 16 g's a year he has been paid a total of 370 000 wow wait let me let me do let me just clarify the church paid for him to be no no no no this the city's name is called church christ church of wizardry what the council paid him to the council it's not a church dude this that's the name of the city christ church yeah thank you thank you joe okay that's not confusing but cool so um
2:34 the wizard was born in england he began performing acts of wizardry and entertainment in public spaces shortly after arriving in new zealand in 1976 when the council originally tried to stop him the public protested they liked it in 1982 the new zealand art gallery directors association said he had become a living work of art and then in 1990 the prime minister at the time mike moore demanded that he become oh wizard demanded new zealand oh wow what what kind of wizard tricks does he do great there's a couple things he's got the three styrofoam red balls that like he hides up in his thumb and his fake thumb that just puts it in here a magic trick yeah so one thing that he does um he performs in christ church which is a city he rained danced in new zealand and australia during droughts and was awarded the queen's service medal in the
3:24 2009's queen's birthday honors to rain dance did when he rained danced did it rain following it did not rain afterwards this month we got 370 thousand dollars that's what i'm saying we're all not making it work it didn't rain immediately after but it did rain afterwards three months later it was like a little while later but everyone's like hey he did a good job during summer but it did during like winter but he told everybody he's like it's gonna take some time but it will rain and he was right he was right he was exactly right um so yeah then um in april they had a screening of this uh the show and the wizard said he liked to he on the show that he liked to tease women by telling them they're devious and said quote they use cunning to get men who are thick proceeded to say i love women i forgive
4:14 them all the time i never struck one yet never strike a woman because they bruise too easily is the first thing tell their neighbors and their friends and then you're in some big dreams mark did he have that job do you think this dude was it was written do you think he was like getting a lot of chick's phone numbers from having this i mean he might maybe witches which is yeah definitely wishes is crushing it this is for sure doing some sort of wizardry because i don't get it so after this interview after this interview the council said they they sent the wizard a letter and thanked him for all the years of service they fired him and then they let another they were no longer going to be renewing his contract because because of this because what happened here what do you say here yeah i mean the dude's 88 though he didn't curse them he could put a spell on them that's all right the grand wizard you
5:04 know that's his way you can find me you're that's funny though that's like i think we should have turned them all into ice statues or something i'm gonna make sure it rains for 10 years only on your house that's a good little curse so he's saying he he clap back i have to say oh he says that um he he understands that he doesn't fit the vibes of the city it does say that you can see right here um he said that he's a provocateur and he says quote implies that i am boring and old but there's nobody else anything like me in christ church it's just they don't like me because they're boring old bureaucrats and everyone likes me and no one likes them that's literally what he said what a narcissistic way to get out of there sassy
5:57 everyone likes me but not you you old your recruiter you're boring all bureaucrats and everyone likes me and nobody likes you that is insane guardian leviosa but he doesn't do anything he entertains yeah and he makes it rain i'm just saying he didn't demand him i mean the city loves him he's a movement he's like um he's like the lovely pigeon that everyone likes you know like he's like the park cat you know like that job he won his job and when they ditched him everyone got pissed oh and they said that there's there's kind of a hornet's nest that's been awakened oh and that quote the next few months are going to be real fun or interesting i mean they're going to start protesting probably or he's going to ████ make it rain or he's going to just do a bunch of curses he was a regular like every time they had an event he the wizard of oz was there it was like a big thing new zealand's an interesting place you
6:48 know what i'm saying they paid that's kind of like paying the the village drunk to entertain everybody yeah i'm with it we should our version of that are you not enter the most entertained by the village drunk of course you are yeah right we should take care of them they're a national monument so i'm saying we should we should give them a drink man jack's off on the street corner and pukes on his own penis and then goes to sleep that's one of the funniest things i've ever seen yeah that's what i'm saying give him a ████ salary you know yeah like yearly salary 16 000 your face so close to your penis and then puke and then choking and puking on it but you're not having your penis in your mouth oh my god the irony is it's gross wait you're still choking on your penis when it's not in your mouth no he just choked without it in his mouth got it that's why it's ironic yes yes
7:38 i wish i wish our government did something like that just like pay people for being who they are like you're a wizard you stay a ████ wizard we're going to support your wizardry do that that wouldn't fly out here though i don't think no we're like we just want to pay you to work in the government not really do anything yeah don't we we burn a lot of tax dollars we do like we like build railroads and train systems that don't ever get used and like we do i mean yo that's a lot of money right there that people can use especially to pay a salary of like a mascot like a grand wizard for each state oh that's true we need a wizard at the dmv design shorter or make it more fun make it more fun yeah entertain us while we're alive train dance or something yeah oh yeah rain dance that'll let that'll make the line scatter because it'll rain and the people who don't want to be in the rain out here in l.a at the indoor dmv damn we don't but now they don't let you wait
8:28 inside yeah it's all outdoors yeah way outside you know sucks oh ████ you know how they have that don't you wait outside and then you go inside to wait in another line yeah yeah yeah okay yeah but dude imagine how everyone drives so much slower when it rains in la if you ran in the dmv it'd be so much slower yeah that's true you should be even slower damn man it's on the piano we need to have that guy what more has a piano with it yeah there's a guy there's usually someone performing it like glendale galleria or some ████ and that's why that's and you do that and then you have one at the dmv just to get better ambiance that's the smiles see then if we have it at the dmv somebody's gonna be like can you play two shorts you know you better be ready for what city they're in exactly there we go i like that they need to cover the piano when the professional's not on it though
9:18 because i've had i've heard some ████ ████ yeah because then someone just like is in the middle of shopping and they want to be discovered no worse like some seven-year-old kid played chopsticks yeah and then it reverberates with the whole mall bounces through every wall of the mall for miles bro yeah ████ that dude let's lock that kid up don't blame the kid let's beat up the parents yeah i'm down here i'm down in new zealand new zealand dude get out of here watch we hear that at the mall it's taika and bart's just standing there going yay the most beautiful music he's ever heard and it's ████ not even good chopsticks their lucky type is cute though [Music]
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