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913: FISM 2025 in Turin, Italy- Day One Report

Monday 14 July, 2025

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Time Stamps: These will be posted after I have gotten some sleep.

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Posted in Convention Report and tagged with FISM Italy, FISM, Turin Italy, Lupe Nielsen, Christian Engblom, Christian Schenk, Erix Logan, Eric Chien, Joey Cranford, Boris Wild, Tiffany Allen, Wolfgang Buhr, Nancy Anderson, Felice, Alex Ramon, Marko Ramon, Shep Hyken, Seth Kramer, Jonathan Levit, Al Garber, Larry Hass.

July 14, 2025 by Scott Wells.
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546: Christian Engblom - Welcome to My Table

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Christian Engblom joined me along with Chip Romero, Caesar Trujillo and Rob Greenlee late one night in my backyard sipping martinis and smoking cigars. The ambiance was perfect and the conversation was epic. Christian shared some of his philosophy on magic and Chip talked about his cruise experiences and shared philosophy. Christian talked about Juan Tamaiz and Dani DaOrtiz and Chip talked about Doug Henning. It was a fun conversation where you feel you are right in the conversation with us. So pull up a chair and enjoy this episode. I know you’ll learn something, too!

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Christian talks about developing his “Anti-Faro” shuffle, performing on “Penn & Teller Fool Us”, and Chip Romero talks about Doug Henning and cruise ships.

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BE OUR GUEST . . . when you visit the Rabbit-in-Hat Magic Shop, you'll soon discover that we're all about Magic . . . and Magic means conjuring up fun and la...
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Tagged with Christian Engblom, Chip Romero, Penn & Teller Fool Us, Doug Henning, Juan Tamariz, Dani DaOrtiz.

February 13, 2020 by Scott Wells.
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271: Shawn McMaster - Superman of Magic

Shawn McMaster wanted to fail...and he did. Soooo, I guess he...succeeded???

Shawn was a reluctant guest performer on "America's Got Talent". He wanted to present his unique act once and not move forward to the next phase in Las Vegas. How it all began and what happened is the subject of part of this podcast.

I had hoped to chat with Shawn at the 2015 MAGIC Live! convention but our schedules conflicted and we never made that happen. Shawn was an associate editor of MAGIC Magazine and now serves as one of the contributing writers. Like many professional magicians, he is a corporate entertainer having worked aboard cruise ships, and in theaters in Las Vegas and off-Broadway, and a frequent performer at Hollywood's Magic Castle. He is an interesting person with a creative on-stage character/routine.

It's an odd presentation, but maybe even more odd for Nick Cannon who joins Shawn McMaster as his assistant.

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In the first half of this podcast, Shawn relates the story of his experience of performing on America's Got Talent. During the second part of our chat, he talks about acting in a couple of movies, the creation of his signature effect (as Superman on stage), the ethics of stealing someone's creative idea.

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January 7, 2016 by Scott Wells.
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