The awfully lovely Andrew Frost joins us to chat about his new Edinburgh show (which just finished a sold out run), his new gig working at an immersive magic show in London, and his new download collection "Stay Frosty" available today at, well, you guessed it, www.vanishingincmagic.com

The utterly delightful Christian Grace comes back on the show after a few years.

Christian found time in his busy schedule supporting Take That on tour (no, really) to talk about magic, mentalism, and his incredible app, "Enigma" which launches on VI today!

In an incredibly open and honest discussion, Craig talks about the mistakes he has made - and what he has learned from them. 

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

If you want to save $200 on his exclusive download bundle, act quickly, the saving is only valid for a week. Normal price will be $300. This week only, you can grab over 11 hours of real world worker material for just $99. Right here: https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/card-magic-downloads/karl-hein-download-bundle/

Tom Crosbie has done many Edinburgh shows with pun-tastic titles such as Nerd World Problems, You Can’t Polish A Nerd, and Nerd Do Well where he was nominated as 'Act Most Likely to Make a Million Quid' in the Malcolm Hardee Awards! He got his flight time out in Europe working for Rodney James Piper, then Matt Wright. He’s successfully transitioned to close up nerdy magician to a busy professional stage worker, where he not only embraces his inner nerd, it is his whole act. It's Tom Crosbie!

The final of our special live show recording at The Session 2020. 

The second of three podcasts recorded live at The Session 2020, in London. 

Rune Klan is an incredible performer and in this episode we talk about honesty, creativity, improvisation, openers, and his new show about to tour his native Denmark. 

I mentioned I'd post a link to his amazing YouTube mini series: TrickyLeaks. So I have. 

This episode was recorded live at The Session in London. 

Winner of the Hong Kong Close Up Magic Open, Asia Magic Association Close Up Magic Content, FISM Asia winner, FISM Italy winner, TV star and hugely successful corporate entertainer as well as the person responsible for kick starting the entire genre of rubik’s cube magic, it’s Henry Harrius!

Henry tips in some detail what he'll be lecturing about this coming weekend at The Session as well as discusses how to improve your magic, how piracy has impacted him, and once or twice we talk about cubes. 

Follow Henry on Instagram. 

Here it is. Our Holiday Special. Yes, it's over 30 minutes, but you listen to it and tell me what I should have cut out? :)

What you are here for, in these show notes, is the video of the race. 

Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bW7rraZfFc

Suck it up, George. LOOOOOOSER.

Hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed recording it.

If I get time, I will drop the rap onto a beat. 

Magician, creator, consultant, director, winner of the AMA Close up magician of the year and the man who brought the world tiny plunger, it’s Jon Armstrong.

This show has a lot of insights, but one REALLY useful bit of information about making a commercial comedy magic prop your own. Worth the price of admission just for that. 

Marlo, Marlo, Marlo, and a bit of Marlo on the side. Zarrow shuffles. And more. 

Magician, author, creator,  TV presenter, performer, producer, film maker, it’s Paul Wilson. We chat about Tamariz, TV Magic and a prank he pulled on our very own Joshua Jay...

Please also see the accompanying blog post for your free copy of the notes referred to in the show. 

Math genius Art Benjamin chats to us about magic squares, James Randi, what he'll be performing at The Session and even does a live trick on your host!

It's episode 50! 

Today I'm joined by Simon Coronel and Nick Paul, the hosts Two Magicians. One Mic. Between them, they’ve been on Conan, Netflix’s Magic for Humans, won FISM, Fooled Penn and Teller and are awfully, awfully existential.

"Hey Dawg, I heard you like magic podcasts, so I put a magic podcast inside your magic podcast."

Enjoy.  

Harrison is funny and does magic. What more do you need to know?

We have a chat about shoving nails up your nose, AGT, Conan, developing original material and roasts. Enjoy. 

In this week’s episode Scott Robinson talks with us about his creative process, a soft touch, TRICS, Sleight Club, how to make a move your own and - of course - his new book “Pure Imagination”. Launched last weekend at TRICS, the book sold out immediately. It officially hits the magic stores tomorrow (12th November 2019). 

Scott's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scottroms

TRICS : https://www.facebook.com/tricsconvention/

Nikola Arkane is best known in her native Northern Ireland as a children's magician. Indeed, she is the only professional female magician there. She also is a close up performer and has recently won two IBM competitions and recently performed for a week in the close up room at The Magic Castle. 

We chat about her first and worst ever gig, the issues she had performing close up initially, her love of music and her new book all about the practical side of running a children's magic business. 

And Sweden. 

This is an amazing episode. You'll learn so much about performance. How important a breath is. Why being interested is better than being interesting. Why clowns have red noses.

Avner started learning his art in the 70s, in Paris, and kindly shares a great deal of what he has learned over the years. 

If you enjoy the show, we'd love it if you told a magician friend or two. 

A huge star in his homeland, Wolfgang Moser talks with us about Fool Us, Think A Drink and his process for creating unique magic. Enjoy. 

Today, we have the creator of "Socks" and "Priceless", Michel Hout. Michel is a busy corporate magician and offers some amazing insights into that world in this episode. Also, the story about the creation of "Priceless" is worth the price of admission alone. Enjoy. 

(There were a couple of technical issues with this week's show - some stray pops and clicks and weirdness. I fixed them as best I could - hope it doesn't interfere with your enjoyment of the show). 

He's tall. He's Scottish. He's done Edinburgh Fringe for 28 consecutive years and made a profit each year. That's remarkable. In this episode, Ian shares all he has learnt from doing oh so many Fringe shows. You'd do well to listen when Ian speaks. You're likely to learn something. 

Here's his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iankendallmagic/

Oh, and in the show he mentions Isis. That is my daughter, not the terrorist organisation - just to avoid confusion. 

Eric and I talk about making magic videos every day for a year, how YouTube landed him not one, but two highly successful TV gigs, the crossover between adult and kid magic, and a whole load more besides. 

This is just a super short PSA to let you know we're taking a summer break, but will be back in September with a whole boatload of amazing guests. Stay tuned. 

On this horribly sad day, we thought re-uploading this 2019 interview with Max would be a fitting thing to do. 

Let's remember what he gave us, not what we have lost. 

Yup. Him David Regal. And in this episode we talk about secrets, interpreting magic, rug rats, the hot rod force, his new book and of course, The Carbanaro Effect.

Mike Pisciotta has won Close-Up Magician of the Year in the AMAs not once but twice. Then, he went and won Parlor Magician of the Year. He estimates he's done 10,000 shows as The Magic Castle's resident bar magician down in The Hat and Hare. 

In this episode we talk about flight time, what's important in Mike's magic, how he selects material, and there's even a saucy celeb story. Enjoy. 

He owns a lot of suits. He likes card tricks. He is German. That's right, you guessed it, it's Pit Hartling. 

Daniel Prado is a professional musician by day, and amazing magician by night. He's created some stunning effects, including BURN. In this podcast we chat about invisibility, practise, table faros, making your own peanut butter and being a control freak. 

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/

Homer is back for part two.

Come for the magic, but stay for the amazing iPhone photography tips, how to stand out, Homer’s admiration of David Williamson, him tipping his restaurant act. What JJ Abrams said when he saw the show, what challenges him today, what he’s teaching in his Masterclass and how he’ll explain how to improve your lighting with no budget!

And his favorite movie.

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. 

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. 

We're honored that Homer Liwag is giving his first ever lecture on Vanishing Inc. Masterclass in November. Homer was also kind enough to record this interview where we talk about pushing yourself, taking risks, lighting, David Copperfield and the CGI nature of his coin magic.

As explained in the intro, you can buy Homer's Vanishing Inc. Masterclass for $75 here: https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/masterclass/homer-liwag-masterclass/

Or, if you want to save yourself $25, subscribe to VI Monthly and get all of Homer's lectures, plus access to VI Studio (our curated streaming library), plus free shipping with no minimum spend: https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/vanishing-inc-monthly/

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!