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719: Kenton Knepper - Word Wizard

While attending the recent Poe’s Magic Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, one of the presenters was Kenton Knepper. We sat down in a quiet room for a very intense conversation that included his roots and moving to Phoenix, Arizona, and his friendship with noted mentalist, Larry Becker, plus his influences that led him to writing “Wonder Words” for which he is best known for as its author. Kenton has written about 20 different publications over the decades. We discussed NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) and hypnosis and much more in this week’s episode. Kenton doesn’t often attend major magic conventions so it was a rare privilege to sit down with him for this episode this week.

John was a friend and inspiration to Kenton

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In this week’s episode, Kenton talks about the development of his Wonder Words, what it is and how it works, his relationship and inspiration by Larry Becker. He also encourages us to go out and just do it, whatever “it” is and try it. Our conversation went quite deep and I was truly engaged in our conversation so much so that something happened at the end of this episode that has never happened in all my years. Be sure to stay tuned to end of our chat to hear what happened.

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Kenton himself says: "KENTON PRINCIPLES is my legacy book. It compiles and expands on my most important principles in magic and mentalism. It will be the go-to book for the application of my ideas to anything you perform, magic or mentalism. Once you know these principles, anything is truly possible."

Tagged with Kenton Knepper, Larry Becker, Carl Langdon, Lee Earle, Docc Hilford, Banachek, NLP, Eugene Burger, Richard Webster, John Mendoza, Wonder Words.

October 13, 2022 by Scott Wells.
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505: Ray Hyman - Skeptical Observer

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Nonagenarian Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Oregon, Ray Hyman, is one of the founders (along with James Randi and Martin Gardner) of the skeptical movement. He consulted for Alice Cooper and the federal government during his colorful career. And he still teaches workshops on “character reading” (see: cold reading) to skeptics.

In this workshop from The Amaz!ng Meeting 2012, Ray Hyman instructs participants on how to do "psychic" or character readings. They also perform readings on each other. The goal is not to increase the number of cold readers, but to show how easily a cold reading can convince people they have experienced the supernatural.
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In this podcast, Ray talks about meeting Dai Vernon, Dr. Stanley Jaks and Persi Diaconis and his close relationship with Jerry Andrus and James Randi. At one point in his life, James Randi asked Ray to come in to help consult with rock legend, Alice Cooper. He also talks about working with the government to dispel psychic phenomena and the development of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI),

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Tagged with James Randi, Uri Geller, Ray Hyman, Jerry Andrus, Persi Diaconis, Alice Cooper, NLP, Dai Vernon, Hen Fetsch, Dr. Stanley Jaks.

July 25, 2019 by Scott Wells.
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  • Jerry Andrus
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Memories of Johnny Thompson - The Great Tomsoni

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This is an unedited, explicit recording of a few friends of Johnny Thompson who reminisced about their old friend. To watch the video of the Memorial Service, then tune in to the video at http://www.tomsoni.co

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Tagged with Johnny Thompson, The Great Tomsoni, Daniel Garcia, Fielding West, Nick Lewin, Ray Anderson, David Magee, memorial service.

April 12, 2019 by Scott Wells.
  • April 12, 2019
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  • Johnny Thompson
  • The Great Tomsoni
  • Daniel Garcia
  • Fielding West
  • Nick Lewin
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