The Dave Attwood Show

Steve talks about his encounter with a true luddite and how he and Dave embrace emerging technology. Dave talks about how he doesn’t know anything and how important it is to keep failing until you hit success. their guest this week is Las Vegas magician Krystal Lawrence, the resident magician at The Golden Tiki Lounge.

This week Dave and Steve talk about creativity and getting to the proper mental state for the creative process. Steve suggests that the two of them head over to sensory deprivation tanks for research purposes. This week is the second half of our interview with Julie Eng.

This week Steve and Dave talk about Paul Romhany’s topical Vanish Magazine and the social media storm about it. Dave also talks about the magic annual cycle, starting to work on Christmas bookings in the summer and Dave and Steve do their annual call out for the highest paying day of the calendar year. Our guest this week is Julie Eng talking about some exciting new projects and her incredible work with the charitable arts organization Magicanna.

Dave and Steve start the show talking about celebrating Canada Day. Dave then talks about the creative process and the importance of associating with fellow magicians and being a part of your local magic club. Our guest this week is the brilliant Jen Kramer calling in from Las Vegas.

Steve talks about avoiding his barber and Dave talks about his journey to getting back into shape. Then Dave dives into the hard work of getting used to rejection and booking gigs. Dave also talks about how magicians get bogged down in the technique versus the effect on our audiences.

Steve is loving that summer has finally arrived in Victoria and Dave talks about his absolute love for Vancouver Island. They also dive into the taboo subject of fees and what to charge when you are starting out. Our guest this week is David Kaye aka Silly Billy talking about what kids find funny and the psychology of entertaining kids.

This week Steve starts the show talking about the break from all the sports going on, Dave talks about winning a recent magic competition. On part II of our interview with Richard Osterlind, Richard goes into detail about how he devoted one must be to be a mentalist.

This week Dave and Steve are joined in the studio by AMS CTO Justin Louie. Dave starts the show talking about his latest dry grad performance and dealing with audiences with ADD. They also talked a little about Will Tsai and his coin matrix performance on this year’s AGT. Their guest this week is Richard Osterlind talking about the difference between presenting yourself as a magician versus a mentalist.

This week Dave talks about the struggle of selling your magic to people that are not professional event planners and those that don’t understand the value of good professioinal entertainment versus cheap entertainment. They also have the second half of Dave’s coffee date with Andrew Gerard.

Steve starts the show talking about his sunburn and Dave educates everyone on what a dry-grad is and how important it is to understand the true goal of hecklers. Our guest this week is Andrew Gerard, co-producer of Conscious Magic talking about his life and philosophy in magic.