Shows, AutoTrader.com and Why I can't sleep.

I'm posting this at 2:43am. I'm sitting up because I can't sleep. I have 1000 things running through my head right now. Many, of which, involve my career with AutoTrader.com and also my entertaining. Just did a show this evening for a 5 year olds birthday party. It went really well. Had a lot of fun and the kids, as well as the adults, were very attentive. Afterward I noticed that one of the children got a Svengalli Deck so I showed the adults how to use it and how it worked. Lots of fun.

I'm trying to figure out some new stuff, especially with mentalism. One thought ran through my head tonight. If you're not a magician this won't make sense to you. But using the Thought Transmitter you can talk about visual and non visual selection and how they make a difference and tell a little about a person. Then, using a Boris Wild deck you have the spectator select 4 random cards, lay them out side by side and tell them to place their hands over all 4 and they will feel stronger about 2 of them. They select those 2 and discard the other 2, then tell them to place their hands of the 2 cards and they will feel stronger about 1. You tell them to keep that card and discard the last but don't look at the face of the card. Next, you lay out the 5 ESP symbols face up and have them think of one. Now, while your back is turned you have them write on a card that you hand them, the value of the card, the suit of the card and the symbol they selected and place it in the Thought Transmitter. Then have them gather up the ESP cards and bury the card they selected in the deck. Turn around and place a rubberband around the Thought Transmitter and then, Cold Reading time! Here's how the card looks that is put in the Thought Transmitter case.

Obviously, using the BW Deck you will know the value of the card and, if you know how the Thought Transmitter works, you know how you know the symbol as well. Gonna give it a try and see how it works out but seems to me like it would be a lot of fun. I'll let you know. This, as well as many other things is what keeps me up at night! BTW, special thanks to Tom Craven for giving me the idea for the card for the Thought Transmitter. He does something very similar.