Reading magic books is something that’s often advocated by many magicians.
Last year Jeff Kowalk decided to start a YouTube channel called Erudite Magic, specifically about reading magic books.
In this episode we spoke with Jeff about his YouTube channel and also a lot about reading magic books!
The episode was full of ideas on reading magic books and we hope you enjoy it. We also recommend you check out Jeff’s YouTube channel, Erudite Magic!
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Science and Magic. You wouldn’t often expect to hear those two words together.
However in this weeks episode we spoke with Matt Pritchard about combining his love of science with his love of magic. He explains how he can use magic to teach science and use science in magic.
Alongside this, we also talked to him about being a “curator of wonder” and his TEDx Talk, “The quantum state of wonder”.
We also discussed the sequence of thoughts by our audiences when they see a trick this was a topic he covered in his TEDx Talk and we thought it was really interesting and thought we could ask questions about it and talk about it more!
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Studying magic at university for many magicians must seem like a dream come true. In this week’s episode we spoke with the lovely Will Houstoun - who actually does have a PhD in magic history! There was a ton of things covered in this episode that were slightly more academic than usual. Will spoke to us about his work with Imperial College London and using magic in an educational context as well as chatting to us about video chat magic and his involvement in the effective altruism movement and how that way of thinking could be applied to making the magic world a better place. We also discussed a side hobby of Will's calligraphy, and why its important to have other hobby's than magic!
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In this episode we had a crossover with the awesome guys from The Successful Mentalist. If you haven't heard of TSM they are trying to improve the quality of life of all performers through the delivery of information and transformative techniques that will improve their mindset, business, performance and health.
We had a 4 way discussion about a plethora of things including things like goal setting, identifying performance niches, staying true to your vision, and being authentic, we also discussed some of the biggest take-aways we have had from the podcast!
Topics Discussed Include:
[01:45] Csanád’s and Robbie’s Key Learning From TMBM Podcast
[05:00] TSM Boys’ Key Learning From TSM Podcast
[10:40] Setting Ambitious Goals And Growing Constantly
[14:00] What Would You Do After Accomplishing All Your Goals?
[17:00] Identifying Your Niche And Gaining Expertise
[19:15] Authenticity: Interval Reality vs. External Reality
[24:10] Achieving Your Vision Through Mindset Shift
[30:00] What Is The ONE THING That Matters?
[34:40] Going Beyond The Trick-Based Performing Approach
[39:30] Helping Young Magicians Learn Differently
[44:00] Stop Consuming Tricks And Start Growing As A Performer
[48:30] What Does It Mean To Be Performer-Centric?
[54:00] Having Clarity Of Thought Each Day
Bonus Resources (From TSM):
Free Ebook: 10 Tips To Improve Your Mentalism http://thesuccessfulmentalist.com/free ((TheSuccessfulMentalist.com/free))
Apply For Learn To Thrive: http://thriveinmagic.com (ThriveInMagic.com)
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Very early on Josh started creating magic tricks for himself, as he wasn't fully aware of magic shops and thoughts that all magicians made their own tricks instead of buying from magic shops. This let him work, a lot, on his creative muscle, this meant that later on his magic career when he had more knowledge of magic he could create more original tricks and tricks other people have not yet thought of.
We also discussed Josh performing for the special needs population, how that came to be and why it is important to have things catered towards people with special needs. He tells an incredible story when he was performing to a blind person.
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Rubik's cube magic, a niche that a lot of people are into, however what separates Adam from a lot of people is that he was interested in Rubik cubes before hand and then incorporated it to his magic.
Adam is amazing at solving the Rubik cube's, he solve it under 15 seconds, honestly incredible.
We also talked about him winning the magician of the year, how he prepared for it and what he took away from it.
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Henri White, along with being an incredible magician, also plays the piano, in this episode, we discuss if Henri thinks that if playing the piano has helped his sleight of hand.
When learning any instrument an immense amount of practice has been put in, so we discuss practising magic, and the question was raised, if someone doesn’t enjoy practising magic, so Henri discusses that we might be practising wrong, and explains how we can overcome that.
With practising Henri brings up a quote about practising, originally said by Fray Presto “there’s no right or wrong there’s only what works” Henri goes on to develop this and explains why this might be harder to digest for some magicians as some magicians want yes or no questions, but practising isn’t like that, what might work for one person may not for the next.
We also discussed how Henri started coming up with his own magic, and why he started to create his own magic.
We also talk about the company he is the company director for, we discuss how it originally got made, what it is, what their aim is, and where he sees it in the future.
We also discuss some of his favourite moments from Studio 52.
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If you could do real magic how would it look like?
Aidan's philosophy is that, if he could do real magic, what would it look like?
It's really interesting, and I believe that Aidan has a very good point here, and we discuss it in this episode!
And in the episode, we discuss all of our ideas of what our vision of good magic is - and it's important to think about, as it can help us massively develop in magic, so hopefully, our conversation sparks some interest!
We also discuss Stop Existing, which is Aidan's personal and business coaching program!
We also discussed his podcast The Successful Mentalist and what their mission is and why they started it!
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Putting a show together has definitely changed over the last year beforehand performers would need to go to theatres, book a time, discuss prices, discuss how the theatre was going to get paid, etc.
But for the past year or so it's changed massively; now we just cleaned, maybe painted, our spare rooms, or an existing room - set up our equipment, made a cool poster, and we had a show!
However, now as theatres are starting to re-open, we should start thinking about how we are going to create a show, in person, in a theatre.
We had the amazing David Fung on this episode to talk about how he has put on a show in the past, and how that's changed for the new show he is putting together for later this year.
We also discuss the business aspect of things as well, and how it all works when putting on a show.
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The President of the Associated Wizards of the South, the A.W.S is the fourth oldest magic society in the world and the sixth oldest in the world, Harry Houdini was once an honorary member of the society.
We discuss how he became the youngest member of the club ever to join the youngest president to be elected. We discuss some of the changes he has made and some of the changes he is going to make in the future!
We also talked about levitating orb/contact juggling. If you haven't seen it before, we would highly recommend that you check it out, it is so amazing, satisfying, and fascinating!
We talked about how you can get into contact juggling, and what else you can do it with. Along with his excellent at the table lecture with vanishing inc.
We discuss how his business degree has helped him in magic and what he can apply from his degree to magic.
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Nowadays we don't really see much pickpocketing, obviously, we can't do it over zoom, but in "real" life I don't think as many of us do it anymore.
But, Ricky still does it and we talk about many areas regarding pickpocketing. As well as that Ricky does hypnosis, something that, I believe, most young magicians think is out of reach - we discuss how Ricky has got into hypnosis, and how you could too!
We also talk about wedding magic, and a time where it has gone wrong, but then how Ricky still managed to leave a positive image of himself.
We also talk about how he has adapted to online performances, and we finish with our quickfire round!
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Neuroscience and magic, usually those two words don't go together - but Daniel incorporates them two together and talks about it!
In this episode, we talked about some of the ideas and premises of neuroscience together with magic!
We also talked about his youtube channel, his studio, and his equipment!
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https://youtu.be/tOlBHoOYzXM - Video we talked about
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Big Trick Energy - four friends, all magicians and they like to mess with one another!
This is a brand new TV show made by Truu Tv, and Wes talks a little behind the scenes of what happened when the cameras weren't rolling.
We also talked about youtube and his youtube career - what he has done to get to where he is, how his content has changed!
We also talked about his course Learn With Wes why he started it and where it's going.
Behind the scenes to his Penn and Teller Fool Us act, how he came up with it, why he shared his method if he would go back to Fool Us, and more!
And finally, his amazing new TV show with Chris Ramsey, Alex Boyer, and Eric Leclerc!
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Big Trick Energy Pilot Episode on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEdtQMQ04Ws&t=9s
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After popular demand, we recorded an episode with only Robbie and me in it.
We really enjoyed making this episode and we talked about a lot of things including, what's going on in the magic community, what magic are we doing, and some product reviews!
Hope you enjoy this episode!
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https://youtu.be/C6t3Hl0qvZ0
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How do playing card company's get their cards funded?
How do they design them?
How do they take photos of them without a prototype?
In this episode, we will answer all that and more, with playing card designer, and co-founder of Seers, Jason Sawyer!
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theseers/the-seers-magus-aurum-and-sanguis-playing-cards
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There is suddenly a new genre in magic, what do you do about it?
Do you, ignore it and complain how it isn't as good as another one?
Completely disregard it?
Or start working on it, so you become the best at it?
I think for most people it is going to be a mix of it all, everything in life has a positive and negative, after all, and we get the opportunity to look at it in two different ways.
Noel, at the beginning of the pandemic, jumped fairly quickly on the bus of online shows, he built a studio and having some experience in T.V set up the gear to make it look good. And know, he recently performed on probably the most renowned zoom show of it all, Penn and Teller Fool Us.
In this episode, he shares with us the experience he had performing for Penn and Teller, and what went on behind the scenes.
We also talked about, how he got into magic, when and how he became known as the 'iPad Magician' and what he thinks of online shows overall.
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