The Insider

Today's guest is probably your favorite magician's favorite magician. 

He’s considered one of the most influential thinkers in the world of magic.  He’s performed at The Magic Castle, every major Las Vegas casino and elite private parties and high end corporate dos. Penn & Teller refer to his performance as one of the most subtle and diabolical in the world of magic. It’s none other than Mr Paul Vigil.

Paul and I chat about his time at The Retreat, a lecture for 3 people in a Las Vegas hotel bedroom (yes, really), he shares a Johnny Thompson story, a Channing Pollock story and talks about what it means to be "fooled by a gentleman". 

John Lovick is my guest today. We talk about what a director brings to a magic performance, what good magic looks like, his Penn and Teller memorabilia collection, why being limited by a character is good for creativity and The Magic Castle. 

Ryan Plunkett, a Founding Ensemble Member and Regular Performer at the Chicago Magic Lounge takes some time to talk with us about how limiting yourself increases your creativity, Chicago, his first book, his new book and lots more besides. 

Distilled

A New Angle

Today's guest is a actual real-life professor. An academic. A magician. A skeptic. A viral video creator. An author of best-selling books and proper scientific papers. It’s the one and only Professor Richard Wiseman.

In this episode we talk about skepticism, viral videos, his early days in magic and books, a magic show with no performer, his appearance in a Queen video and the best hack you'll ever hear for checking your presentation software is working properly. 

Here's the video he's in. Can you spot his arm?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AIlz08fZos

Today, David Kaye and I talk about his philosophy for kids’ magic, why many magicians look down upon people that do magic for children, how to construct a “good” routine for kids, who he rates and what “adult” magicians can learn from kids’ magician.

Here are the people he mentions that he rates:

Mike bent

http://www.mikebentmagic.com

John kimmonds

https://kimmomagic.com

And here are his social links. He’s only just started this, so show him some love and give him a follow:

https://www.instagram.com/silly_billy_magic

https://www.facebook.com/DavidKayeMagic/

And here is where you can buy his stuff:

www.sillymagic.com

My guest today was born and raised in Tel Aviv and now lives in New York. 

He is one of magic’s most influential thinkers and performers.  

He’s David Blaine’s favourite magician. 

It’s the one and only, Asi Wind. 

Follow him on the Instagrams: https://www.instagram.com/asiwind/

Welcome to Season 3!

If I listed all of my guest’s accomplishments now, we wouldn’t have time for any questions. He won young magician of the year and  is now a gold star member of the inner magic circle. Along with huge success performing on stage and television, he also invents and creates magic for stage, film and television. He’s made cars appear and also made flies appear. He’s done BGT, AGT The Champions, performed as part of the Impossible ensemble in the west end, dubai, singapore and the philippines, his act has also graced the royal albert hall, the london palladium and wembley arena. His creations have been seen in dozens of West End plays. He taught magic to Gandalf.

David Walliams described him as the “living embodiment of magic”. 

https://twitter.com/itsbenhart

https://www.instagram.com/itsbenhart/

https://www.facebook.com/itsbenhart

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Morgan And West are back on the show. And the world is a better place for it. We chat about their science show, material selection, how to find the one special trick that defines who you are going to be and of course, their new book "Parlour Tricks" which is being released tomorrow, March 10th 2020. 

Underground card legend Shane Cobalt is my guest on this week's episode. We chat about bad magic, good books and brutal feedback. 

It's Karl Hein! Hugely busy worker, creator, founding father of modern Rubik's Cube magic, regular at The Magic Castle. 

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