Mark Pocan: “I paid for college, largely doing magic shows.”

“Yeah. So we'll just start with the thing that you do outside of the Hill. Magic. Yeah. Since I was a kid, 8 years old, I was doing magic tricks. I paid for college, largely doing magic shows. Yeah. In fact, when I was 14, I won a junior magician contest in Wisconsin that took me to the Midwest. And at 14, I took third place against all these high school kids and everything.” (00:38–00:42)

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