Excellent! Perfectly put. Paul Gordon

love this podcast. Brutally honest and exactly what we need.

Anybody would think you've read my trilogy on the decline of the magician in Top Hat v2. Nice job Craig. Your making sure this video series is worth watching. ☺

Loving this series, Craig. I love that you're honest about everything, whether people agree or not you lay it all out honestly without ego. Coincidentally I think ego is one of the biggest problems facing the industry and is why so many people rush to put something out. Worse than ego, is the propagation of ego, you're only someone's friend if you tell them how good they are on socia media! One look at what goes on on Instagram and you can see it; if you call someone out on BAD sleight of hand, you become the ill-educated "what do you know" person who then becomes some involuntary student of an invisible face as a "discussion" is opened up to convince you you're wrong. It's just sad. Sad that people can't be honest with each other or indeed themselves. I put up a video on my social media the other day, I'm deleting it because it simply wasn't good enough; I don't know why I did it, why I thought it was, but your honesty has inspired me to become more honest with myself. Thank you. 👍🏼

Bang on the Button... I've been there, thankfully I never got ahead of myself though! Note - Listen to those that have experience!!! Good Advice Craig!!

one HECK of a message here Craig, Good on you mate!!! Thanks for sharing and thanks for heading' back here :)

Great ! Agree ... have a new idea, "WORK IT" ... Nice one Craig.

Well spoken sir this issue really does need addressing there is so much shit magic out at present that's obviously rushed and never been used in the real world

Respect! And just for the record, dealers have a responsibility here, for example take a look at some of the downloads Penguin have advertised and sell via their site. Just as you say, some young kid with, in some case nothing more than a phone, pitching nothing more than an idea, its shocking! To some degree I can understand the naivety of the youngster, but a dealer selling it, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! And here's the thing, I have sent extensive emails to these companies, only to be ignored on all levels. It's all contributing and devaluing the art. Here's how its rolling, shite dvd / trick is release that 50% of the time will never fly in the real world, kid buys it, half heatedly learns from a half heated lesson, then they run out and either, god forbid attempt to perform it to an audience, or attempt to teach it to a mate, who then goes on to do the same, and if you can imagine, it gets worse in each step of the process, nobody is doing anybody any favors with all this kidology.

This reminds me of a guy named Kevin Parker.... And another guy who promised to do a show with Kevin Parker material.... Just trolling, I love the show and hope to see more of it in the future.

I hate these 2.0 versions of tricks that come out. I've spent good money on the first version, why would I want the so called better version. It takes an brave man to admit that he's screwed up. Credit where credit is due. A lot of people can learn from these videos.