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This is what I believe happened. The woman volunteer did NOT say the six of spades. In fact you can't see her face in the video anyway when she says the card. However, if you look very carefully at Emily's lips you can see that SHE said the six of spades and the voice was different from the woman as...

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Now I realise why she told them not to react! It is amazing what a touch of ventriloquism will do!

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Oh my God! Not only do I think I know how this TV version was done I actually used to do it myself! Or more accurately I used to do it with Paul Pacific! We just used to do it for a bit of a laugh! We did it very badly on a few occasions and everyone knew how it was done except I think on one occasi...

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ACAAN where it belongs ... as a fellow-fool at the magic circle table. It is a BORING card trick - more a puzzle - for spectators without any entertaining presentation. (Although that would be possible with a different context.) This was not true when David Berglas performed the trick. I am psychic...

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Here is my favourite write up of the entire affair!
https://seeitlive.co/hilarious-senior-g ... ark-lewis/

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ACAAN where it belongs ... as a fellow-fool at the magic circle table. It is a BORING card trick - more a puzzle - for spectators without any entertaining presentation. (Although that would be possible with a different context.) I have a tendency to agree with you. Every time I see somebody present...

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Perhaps it is my imagination but I have noticed the tricks that fool Penn and Teller tend to be the boring ones. The tricks that don't fool them seem to be the more entertaining ones! I suspect on occasions they say tricks fooled them when they actually didn't! Not that I have a cynical nature of co...

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I do agree that any layman who reads this thread will not be any the wiser. After all even the participants on this thread aren't quite sure of their own theories. It is just the principle of the thing that bothers me. I never used to care about exposure but just lately I have become a bit of an ant...

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All this conjecture reminds me of something that Fitzkee once wrote. He said that performing for magicians is a useless exercise since even if you fool them you are completely wasting your time since they will talk among themselves and keep on dissecting possible methods and beating the entire thing...

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I don't know how this is done and I don't particularly care. I find the verbosity dilutes the effect somewhat. Too much talk and too little action for my attention span. A nice puzzle mind you if you like that sort of thing.

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First time I have seen this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inxkGVuOcKM

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Here is a view of the people on the side of the stage! They are going nuts!

https://www.facebook.com/reel/112705292 ... it&__cft__[0]

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How lovely! Congratulations, Mark. (And only Mark Lewis can get a standing ovation going down the stairs.) We all get to say that we knew you when. I just discovered yesterday why I got a standing ovation going down the stairs! I had a closer look at the video. Misdirection! While everyone was watc...

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Not that I am one to boast of course.............

https://seeitlive.co/hilarious-senior-g ... 25e49f62=1

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For some reason muscle reading and hellstromism is quite common among Russian mentalists. Of course the most famous one of all was Wolf Messing if anyone wishes to look him up. I actually own his biography written by Tatiana Lungen.

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I keep getting a psychic vibe of the expression "who cares?" Maybe some fraction of the current readership? Please don't tell us you got into magic or "tarot reading" to meet girls/women (or guys). Actually, that would be fine and understandable if you did. Maybe just a generati...

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Nearly a million views now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=btvtBD ... e=youtu.be

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I keep getting a psychic vibe of the expression "who cares?"

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There is a Harry Lorayne trick I have been doing for years. I do not use the four burglars presentation but there is nothing to stop me if I wanted to. It actually IS the four burglars trick in disguise but nobody seems to have noticed! In fact I have been tempted to use the four burglars presentati...

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"Quirky 79-year-old, Mark Lewis, performs a card trick that captivates audience and judges, earning him the group Golden Buzzer!" https://youtu.be/Id4703fH33o?si=btvtBDdBH4t7fKKu As a result of that television appearance I am expecting more television work in the future. At some point I w...

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I came across this review on the internet. The first little paragraph gives a clue to my own personal philosophy regarding magic which is to let them underestimate you and then you go in for the kill! I find that far better than starting off all slick and professional! Not for everyone of course but...

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CGT also asked me what I was going to do with the money. This was my response:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5T3NnSPsbw/

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I actually met him once many years ago. I was strolling through Harbourfront in Toronto and bumped into Tom Ransom who was sitting with him. I spent the afternoon with them. He never did a card trick once! Or even referred to card magic!

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https://talentrecap.com/79-year-old-mag ... en-buzzer/

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Oddly enough I have just seen something intriguing in the comment section of that video. The last comment was written in Hebrew which I do not speak or understand. I was about to ignore it but on a whim decided to google translate it and was startled to find it was from a relative I have never met a...

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I am married to magic.

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Amazing! Congratulations, Mark. Three things: 1. Use some of the dough to buy a pair of hearing aids. 2. Take a nice vacation with your wife. 3. Bank the rest of the money. I have a hearing aid. The way it works is I put my hand behind my ear and say "Pardon?". It always works, requires n...

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Yes. I did find it somewhat humbling that they did not trust me to walk down the stairs without killing myself. Same thing with AGT. They insisted on helping me down. This time I was determined to do it by myself. They have all these really dangerous acts but they didn't think I could go down 7 step...

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Oh, here's another little one!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HWPToo31CfA

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id4703fH33o

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Tarotist wrote:There is a tiny, tiny peek of me in this video. On Wednesday I think there will be a much bigger one.

https://fb.watch/r9_lpJFsM6/

I was amused to see that the above video is now a TV commercial! I never noticed it until today! Anyway the show is about to start in 15 minutes !

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If you live in Canada you will have the great privilege of seeing me perform on this show tonight. I believe there is another magician on too. City TV from 8pm to 9m is when the show is aired in Toronto. I am not sure about the times in other parts of Canada. If you live elsewhere I think you might ...

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There is a tiny, tiny peek of me in this video. On Wednesday I think there will be a much bigger one.

https://fb.watch/r9_lpJFsM6/

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OK. I promise not to do anything technologically produced.

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I will be seen on Canada's Got Talent on Tuesday evening on City TV in Ontario. As for other parts of Canada I really am not sure when it is going to be aired. I do realise non Canadians won't be able to view it on television but there will no doubt be video links to the performance on Facebook, You...

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It is astonishing stuff but perhaps not too practical in the sense that there are very few venues where you can do that kind of thing. Great for TV but I don't really know where else you can do it.

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I have found the French magician!
https://fb.watch/r5zpaLnlOe/

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I did the svengali deck on AGT to no avail. I thought I had better do something else this time!
I did notice that CGT has indeed a tiny few non Canadian acts. A rather good French magician was on last night. I forget his name but then I am getting old.

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https://canadasmagic.blogspot.com/

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I rather liked Bart Harding mainly on the grounds that he purchased and raved about my svengali routine. We did have some correspondence
many years ago.

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