295: Richard Osterlind - Mysteries Revealed

Richard Osterlind has been at the forefront of mentalism publications and DVD's as afull-time, professional mentalist for over 40 years. In this podcast, Richard purports to have more DVDs on mentalism than any other mentalist in the world. We have been longtime friends and our chat is long overdue. Richard will be one of the featured performers at the East Coast Mind Jam in Somerset, New Jersey this June 24-26, 2016.

Learn more about Richard Osterlind's new two-DVD set, "Eerie" by watching this promo trailer.

Richard reminisces about his early touring days to comedy clubs and, among other topics, he talks about his philosophy on use of electronics in mentalism and his thoughts on pure mentalism (i.e. Q&A)

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Congratulations to Noel Berkofsky who won the contest for a free copy of Richard Osterlind's newest DVD, "Eerie" along with an autographed photograph of Richard. Click on the graphic above to learn more about "Eerie" and how you can order a copy for… — Congratulations to Noel Berkofsky who won the contest for a free copy of Richard Osterlind's newest DVD, "Eerie" along with an autographed photograph of Richard. Click on the graphic above to learn more about "Eerie" and how you can order a copy for yourself.

#200 - How The Grinch Stole Christmas

Last year we brought you "The Night Before Christmas" read by a handful of popular magicians. It was so well received that I asked a few more guys (and gals) to read "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas". See if you can pick out the voices of: Boris Wild, Bob Cassidy, Docc Hilford, Tim Ellis, Tim Trono, George Tait, Rocco Silano, Eric DeCamps, Mandy Farrell, Ice McDonald, Steven Bargatze, Marc Salem, Rick Merrill, Richard Osterlind and, as the Grinch, Eugene Burger.

As I attended several magic conventions over this past year, I took aside a few guys and gals to chat on the podcast. But many of the people graciously agreed to record something special just for this very special podcast. I hope you enjoy hearing their reading of this Doctor Seuss classic. This was one of the most difficult podcasts to edit and took the longest time to gather all the voices to do this one which ended up being one of the shortest ones, too.

This special podcast is my Christmas gift to you for listening for these past few years to the previous 199 podcasts. I wish all the best to you and yours for this holiday season.

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Magic & Martinis Thursday...with the Grinch!

#198 - Henning Magic - Part Two

In this second and final podcast of my "pre-Halloween" coffee talk with Eric Henning, he picks up where we left off talking about his experience of performing at a Halloween party in 2010 in the White House for President Obama. This story, as most of Eric's stories, goes down several side roads before it all comes to a satisfactory conclusion. But it is a delightful journey.

In addition to his story about performing in the White House for the President, Eric also talks about some additional thoughts and tips since he published his book "Tips: Real World Ideas from a Working Magician". His website for magicians, http://thewand.net is where you can find this excellent set of lecture notes which I highly recommend. During our conversation, One of the tips that is not in his book if for Amazing Insoles for anybody who's on their feet a lot (like most all performing magicians).

He also talks about the importance of learning to be a better public speaker by joining Toastmasters in your area. We also talk about the importance of taking pictures with your client and sending it to the client with a hand-written "thank you" card. Eric shares a few additional tips like ideas from the old Linking Ring columns by Rick Johnsonn, "Come A Little Closer" He finishes with a great tax tip that every magician should do BEFORE the end of the calendar year.

Eric "The Financial Wizard" Henning will be one of the professors at M.B.U. in 2015

Join Trixie Bond and Charles Gauci and Scott Wells for lunch in Houston in this short podcast.

Fill your Christmas stockings with all things Banachek.

295: Richard Osterlind - Mysteries Revealed

#200 - How The Grinch Stole Christmas

Magic & Martinis Thursday...with the Grinch!

#198 - Henning Magic - Part Two

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