The Insider

He's really polite. He does amazing dove magic. He's won IBM Stage Magician of the Year. The Magic Circle's Stage Magician of the Year. And he's been part of a hugely successful magic touring show, The Masters of Illusion.  Join us as Edward talks about doves, meeting your heroes and sitting on the floor with Chris Kenner doing a coins across routine. 

This week, I get the chance to chat with an actual Viking. Caroline Ravn. She does sell out tours, TED talks, and makes her own decks of custom cards.  Here's some links to keep up with her work: https://www.instagram.com/ravnmagic/ https://www.facebook.com/ravnmagic/ https://twitter.com/ravnmagic Oh, and if you want a chance to win a custom, possibly signed deck of Caroline's cards, just post #IWannaWinARavnDeck on the post on our social media announcing this episode. Caroline will pick a winner in 48 hours. Only one deck is available. Caroline will decide the winner. No cash substitute and all that jazz. 

Seems fitting that after the passing of Johnny Thompson over the weekend I put out this episode of The Insider with Jamy Ian Swiss. Jamy literally wrote the book on Thompson and talks about him briefly in this week's show.  We also cover why magic sucks, the importance of your feet, American Gods and the Chicago Magic scene. 

Welcome. Another Monday, another edition of The Insider.  This week our guest is Brad Henderson. A person that gets annoyed a lot on the internet. And someone that actually *thinks* about magic. A magician, hypnotist, mentalist and collector of really weird "stuff".  You can keep up with Brad on his Instagram page. The audio is a bit different this week because this episode was recorded live at Magifest 2019. I let Brad have my nice mic. Hope it still sounds OK!

Steve Cohen, the millionaire's magician, joins us on the line this week from New York where his show Chamber Magic has been running for over 20 years. Steve talks with us about his graphic novel , lasagne, and his Astonishing Essay "Evergreen". During the chat, Steve mentions a book that I said I would drop a link in the shownotes. So here it is: The Music Lesson.

Steve Faulkner. Dad, juggler, escapologist, magician, trainer, reviewer and all round good bloke has a chat with us about why he is so tired, dealing with haters and what is important in a magic review show. Oh, and there is a bit of a bombshell in here too, but you have to listen to find out what that is. Links: http://www.cardmagiccourse.com

Zabrecky is the first magician that made me cry with laughter when I saw him at the first Genii Bash. I'd never seen magic presented like that. In this episode of the show, I talk with Rob about all sorts of things. His character, what's inside the box, the importance of acting in magic and his new book, The A to Zs of Magic. The book is part of Vanishing Inc.'s Astonishing Essays series which drops on the 15th of February.  Buckle up, you're in for a treat. 

A special episode of the show with Vanishing Inc. co-founder, Andi Gladwin.  In the show, Andi talks all about Edward G. Brown. A magician that has sadly been almost forgotten about despite Vernon saying he "the finest sleight of hand magician in the country." Andi tells me about the man, his magic and why he thinks the material is so worthy of study today. He bought the rights to the book from The Magic Circle and Vanishing Inc. have released it, along with Andi's notes in the form of a Study Guide to accompany the book. (Which has an unpublished Vernon trick in).  The books will be available here: https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/magic/magic-books/the-card-magic-of-edward-g-brown/ after 8pm GMT on the 4th of February. 

In this week's show we talk about magic and marketing, magic and business, magic and music and, of course, magic. With none other than John Guastaferro. If you don't have his amazing One Degree book you can get a free samplers of it here: https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/magic-downloads/ebooks/one-degree-sampler/ And you can follow John on the social things here:  Twitter Instagram Youtube

Sarah and David Trustman, creators of The Memory Arts, talk about how easy they've made it to memorize a stack. They even convinced me to finally learn a stack! Their brand new expansion pack for poker hands is out today. Check it out here: https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/magic-downloads/ebooks/the-memory-arts-expansion-pack-3/ Get the original here: https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/magic-downloads/mentalism-downloads/the-memory-arts/ And keep up with what this amazing duo are up to: www.trustmancreations.com

In this week's episode, we chat with DMC about his hit series Death By Magic on Netflix, how he feels about "the internet's" claims on his reliance on actors, how his own brand of cards came about and his early days as a jobbing close-up magician.

He's worked with Blaine, Brown, Troy and others. He makes the best iOS apps. And, he's really really nice. Listen to this short chat with Marc and find out about his views on piracy, borrowing his ideas, challenging customer service and The Session. 

A festive and happy John Archer chats with us his Christmas organisational skills, Fool Us, comedy, touring with Tim Vine, his soon to be released Collared 2.0 and his love of The Session. And some strange beeping. 

Messrs Morgan and West take time out of their busy schedule to chat with me about character, scripting, children's magic, Decoded and why The Session is their favourite convention. Do me a favour, please leave a review of the podcast or tell a magician friend about it. It would mean a lot.

Instagram celebrity, physics teacher, card magician and all round good egg Harapan Ong chats with me about Instagram, his series "Fully Booked", how he approaches studying books and, of course, his brand new release Principia.