The Insider

He's got big hands. He's tall. He bakes very impressive cake-related things. Oh, and he does the odd card trick too. It's Denis Behr! As promised, the links to his crediting projects: https://www.conjuringarchive.com https://www.conjuringcredits.com/doku.php and Herbert's fan page:  https://www.facebook.com/herbertrubberband/

You may well not know his name. But Peter Clifford is an actor, director, writer and magician. He's consulted for years for Derren Brown, has consulted for David Blaine, for Morgan and West and now, for you. In this podcast, if you listen, he tells you exactly how to elevate you magic from the run of the mill magicians. It's fascinating stuff. Not easy, no shortcuts, but he gives you the formula and methodology for how you can make you magic better. Much, much better. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did recording it.  Peter has some notes available for a crisp British tenner. You can get them by emailing him and asking nicely.   pcliffordnotes@gmail.com

An unusual episode. Today, the show is an interview Joshua Jay did with an incredible magician called Werner Reich.  Mr Reich survived the Nazi concentration camps - through magic. His story is fascinating and is brought to you to help promote our charity ShareMagic. You can find out more about the good work we do here: https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/charity/ One of the things the charity does is a Youth Scholarship to Magifest. If you'd like to help send a young magician to the convention, please visit the link about - every cent helps. Or, you could also help by sending any young magicians you know the link to apply for the scholarship. There's more information about that here: https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/blog/magifest-2020-youth-scholarship

Tom Elderfield. Magician. Creator. Consultant. Actor. Tom shares a lot in this episode. He explains his whole game plan for Instagram. He explains how to be creative. He explains how to get your work in front of the people you want to see it. And he changed my mind on the use of gimmicks. He's one smart cookie and I know you'll enjoy the show.  Follow him here: https://www.instagram.com/tomelderfield/

In this week's episode, the mystery of why 8 faros returns the deck to original order is explained. As well as other interesting math(s) things. And magic. And jazz. And of course Matt's excellent book The Buena Vista Shuffle Club. 

Well. What can I say. It's Williamson. I broke my 30 minute rule for this one, as I couldn't find 9 minutes to cut out of this. I didn't think you'd all mind, well, because, Williamson.  David was up at 8.30am to share some stories, offer advice and we get insight into how he Williamson-ises a trick. I know you're going to enjoy listening to this as much as I enjoyed recording it.  In the show we break some important news about The Session and Magifest. To book your tickets (and it WILL sell out), get in now: https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/magic-conventions/

Welcome to this week's episode of The Insider. This week we interview magician, academic and author of Experiencing the Impossible: The Science of Magic.  Despite Steinmeyer saying we're guarding an empty safe, some magicians feel that the book is an outrage because some very basic and widely known magic principles (ie, misdirection) are discussed in the book and his wider work in science. We hear from the horse's mouth what his views on this are. It's an interesting chat. 

Not many in our field can really be called legendary. Max Maven can. So, I'm honoured to share with you a 30 minute chat I had with Max. We talk about what he thinks about current mentalism, the heydays of The Magic Castle, and his opinion on performers that claim they have real powers. Oh and his favourite pizza topping. Enjoy. 

It's Monday. It's time for The Insider. Indianapolis' own Caleb Wiles joins me to chat about magic.  Caleb created the very first trick VI released. We talk about that, how he met Josh, his time on Fool Us and of course, his smash hit trick FACT. Enjoy.

We're 10 years old! So this is a special episode where Andi interviews Josh, then Josh interviews Andi.  There's 10% off everything on site. And a free download bundle with 10 tricks that span our history. Thank you for your support. https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/sales/2019-ten-years/

Guy takes time out of his busy lawyer-ing to talk to me about magic. How he got started. His latest stage act. And much more. Enjoy!

Fool Us, Ted, Yale, Vegas. Jen Kramer has done so much. Hear her chat about all that and her favourite pizza topping in this week's The Insider.  Here's a link to Magicians Without Borders that Jen mentioned in the show. 

As I imagine most of you know, Anthony Owen tragically died last Friday. In the episode, Anthony himself says that when you have a deadline, you deliver what you need to deliver. Be it a TV show, book or podcast. Andi and the rest of the team were sure this was the right thing to do. So, here is a thirty minute chat with Anthony. About his book, his life, his work, and, sadly, the things he was looking forward to. Hope this serves as a suitable bookmark for his life. 

In this episode, the delightful Chris Rawlins talks to me about his memory act, how he hates admin, speeding tickets and he gets really surprised to hear a seagull. Enjoy. 

Recorded live at The Session 2019, Dominic Twose, A.I.M.C, is my guest this week. Yes, you may not know his name. But, this episode is well worth listening too. Dominic was one of Fred Robinson's only pupils and Dom talks about how they met, what lessons were like with Fred and what it was like in the London magic scene at that time. Hanging out with Pat Page, Alex Elmsley, Gordon Bruce and more. He shares a great story about Gordon too. We go on to discuss how he got to write the indices for the Cervon Notebooks and be asked to write a brand new book of Cervon material. Finally we chat about his first magic book, Impromptu Secrets and how that came about. Enjoy.