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Wayne Keyser
News and interviews with showmen and performers (old and new) plus music and more!
- Episode 190 – Oh! The Drama!
Episode 190 – Oh! The Drama!
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Bobby Reynolds
Marshall Brodien TV Magic Cards
(it’s really a Svengali Deck)
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1. Planet eBook – planetebook.com
2. Free Ebooks – www.free-ebooks.net
3. ManyBooks – manybooks.net
4. Librivox – Librivox.org
5. Internet Archive – archive.org
6. BookBub – bookbub.com
7. Open Library – openlibrary.org
8. BookBoon – bookboon.com
9. Feedbooks – catalog.feedbooks.com
10. Smashwords – smashwords.com
11. Project Gutenberg – gutenberg.org
12. Google Books – books.google.com
13. PDFBooksWorld – pdfbooksworld.com
14. FreeTechBooks – freetechbooks.com
15. Bookyards – bookyards.blogspot.com
16. GetFreeEbooks – getfreeebooks.com
17. Youtube – youtube.comwww.youtube.com/@MyListeningLibrary/featured
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Theatre Museum of Repertoire Americana in Mount Pleasant, Iowa
theatremuseum.com /research/script-collection
Sid Stone Pitchman Kit
www.amazon.com/INSIDE-Strangest-Show-Earth-Issue/dp/B0DL4CQQF2/
Also…
www.amazon.com/Peter-Hennens-Hells-Belles-Gorilla/dp/1548557455/
Deep-fried Ranch Dressing
In a bowl, combine
1 cup of plain Greek yogurt or ½ cup of real mayonnaise and ½ cup sour cream
1 cup cream cheese
1 teaspoon granulated garlic
¼ cup minced parsley, preferably Italian flat-leaf parsleyMix these together and taste the result to check the flavor, and if you need to, add some more dried ranch seasoning. Mix these thoroughly and drop by spoonfuls onto a parchment-lined baking sheet, then put them in your refrigerator for a while or if you’re careful into your freezer just until they’re firm.
Then get ready to coat the portions. Put 1 cup of all-purpose flour in one bowl, beat 2 large eggs in a second bowl and put 1 cup panko breadcrumbs into a third bowl.
Remove the chilled ranch bites from the cold. Take each one and roll it in the flour. Be sure it’s fully coated. Then dip it into the beaten eggs and let any excess drip off. Finally coat it in breadcrumbs.
Heat the oil over medium-high heat till it reaches 350°F. Carefully add the breaded ranch dressing bites to the hot oil in batches, making sure not to overcrowd the pan. Fry about 2 to 3 minutes or until they are golden brown and crispy, turning occasionally for even cooking. With a slotted spoon or a spider, move the fried bites to a plate lined with paper towels to drain. Serve the finished deep fried ranch dressing bites warm either with some ranch dressing or hot honey for dipping.
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Oh, what the heck…
1 June 2025, 5:44 am - Ep 189 – The Nickel Empire
Episode 189 – The Nickel Empire
(and the way it was)
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Brill 4-Way Joint Plan – just $5
Easy to build! Includes game plans!
Click the link above for a pdf copy emailed to you!
Games include Penny Pitch – Cigarette Pitch – Jingle Board
Hoopla – Pitch Till You Win – Cane Rack – Country Store
Big Dice – The Rat Game – Glass Rack and more!
The To The Hilt podcast is on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, and other platforms.
Watch on Youtube
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Charles Bukowski, American poet, wrote this:
while the rents go up elsewhere
this is where the poor people come to live
the people on AFDC and relief
the large families with bad jobs
the strange lonely men on old age pensions waiting to die.here among the massage parlors
the pawn shops
the liquor stores
caught in the smog and the squalor
even the dogs look inept
don’t bark or chase cats,
and the cats walk up and down the streets
and never catch a bird
but the birds are there
but you can’t see them
you only hear them
sometimes in the night at 3:30 a.m.
after the last streetwalker has made her last score.the rents go up here too
but compared to most others we are living for free
because nobody wants to live with the
likes of us.none of us have new cars
most of us walk
and we don’t care who wins the election.
but we have wife-beaters here too
just like the others
and child-beaters
just like the others
and sex freaks and TV sets just like the othersand we’ll die just like the others
only a little earlier
and we’ll eat just like the others
only cheaper stuff
and lie just like the others
only with a little less imagination.and even though our streetwalkers don’t look as good as your wives
I think our cats and our birds and dogs are betterand don’t forget the low rent.
Charles Bukowski
24 Games Old and New – Just $5
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Download “The Master Key” by L. Frank Baum
You can hear “The Master Key” and many other audiobooks here:
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The master key : an electrical fairy tale: Free Download, Internet ArchiveChocolate Covered Bacon
First cook the bacon. The easiest way is to bake it on foil on a cookie sheet for 10 to 12 minutes at 400 degrees. Watch it carefully because you want it crisp but not brittle.
The chocolate should be couverture chocolate supplied in bulk bags of discs, dark or white chocolate, from Amazon or your other preferred supplier. Melt it in a double boiler, or for your trial run microwave it at 50% power in 30-second intervals stirring between each interval until it’s melted. Any moisture at all will make the chocolate seize up instead of melting, and any fat on the bacon will keep the chocolate from adhering, so use paper towels to keep it dry. Then dip the bacon in chocolate or use a brush to coat it with the chocolate.
To finish, line a baking sheet with parchment or wax paper and put the coated bacon strips on top, then if you like, you can decorate the strips with optional toppings like pistachios or shredded coconut, or you can sprinkle on crushed Oreos, crushed graham crackers or nonpareils, or maybe a drizzle of white chocolate. Put the sheet in the fridge for 15 minutes to set, and it’s ready to serve.
Brill Girl in Fishbowl
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Visiting Coney Island?
Check out coneyisland.com
You’ll see the Sideshows by the Seashore Theater,
the Coney Island Museum and the Freak Bar and Gift Shop
Melville may have been referring to
this Dreamland entrance:
But it was probably this one:
My video of other attractions on Coney Island in 1918
Yes, it really was this crowded
Link to Sideshows by the Seashore
Oh no! Don’t do “mixed bathing” or any of this evil stuff!
Television? Movies? DANCING, oh no!
Better stay away from Coney Island to stay holy.
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1 May 2025, 6:14 am - Ep 188 – ZZZAP! The Electric Chair Act
Episode 188 – ZZZAP! The Electric Chair Act
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Natural Born! Circus, Sideshow, and the Art of Being Human
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Chocolate Popcorn Balls
2 cups of white sugar
½ cup of corn syrup
2 ounces of chocolate
1 cup of waterPut these ingredients into a kettle to cook, then cook until the syrup hardens when a little of it is put into cold water. Pour over 4 quarts of crisp freshly popped corn and stir well to ensure uniform coating of the kernels. Then place the finished balls on waxed paper to cool and set.
Sideshow Tricks Explained – just $5 emailed to you
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“The Master Key” book by L. Frank Baum
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The master key : an electrical fairy tale: Free Download, Internet ArchiveAudiobook: LibriVox
Brill Electric Chair Illusion – pdf just $6
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1 April 2025, 5:58 am - Ep 187 – Eric Broomfield, Jellyboy the Clown
Episode 187 – Eric Broomfield, Jellyboy the Clown
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Link to buy the book Memoirs of a Coney Island Clown: Jellyboy’s Sideshow Saga
Catalog only pdf
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Mardi Gras Indians
Doubloons
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Brill Girl in Fishbowl pdf $5
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Pseudo Hypno Act pdf $4
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1 March 2025, 7:37 am - Ep 186 – Ouch That’s Sharp!
Episode 186 – Ouch, That’s Sharp!
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Link to buy the book To the Hilt: A Sword Swallower’s History of Sword Swallowing
“George the Giant’s Strange Museum of Oddities & Wonders.”
Welcome | Keeping Bakersfield Strange Since 2018
Musee Mechanique at Fisherman’s Wharf
Ghost Light
Sword Swallowers Association International
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Girl to Gorilla – pfd just $ 6
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Brill Electric Chair Illusion – pdf just $6
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Old Magician’s Notebook just $5
“Our Old Carny Magician, the one who led us through the pitfalls of building illusions, passed on in 1960. He was known as The Great Zara of the old Brundage Carnival. For years he supervised our magic plans, and in exchange, we helped him with the mail-order business he later operated.
“When he passed on the left us his notebooks on magic, and we took 20 of his illusions and put them together in one group: “The Old Magician’s Notebook”. They are detailed, the instructions tell how everything works, and we’ve made drawings from his sketches so you can build from them – but we don’t have a single dimension. So we won’t call them “plans”. What we sell as plans are actual building plans, with every possible dimension. We know these will work a (box to hold a man must of course be large enough for the man) but as we have not built these illusions, and he didn’t leave the dimensions, you will have to build them on your own.
“They include the following: Trilby’s Couch (Floating a Strange Lady), Drawing Board Drinks, Blackstone’s Vanishing Horse, Buried Alive On Stage, Amphitrite (Girl Whirls Through The Air), 3-Headed Lady, Vanishing an Elephant, Harlequin Decapitation (cut-off head smokes), Noah’s Ark (girl substitutes for animals), Magic Palanquin (girl vanishes from carried litter), Bullet Catch, Escape from Steel Tank, Transparent Trunk Vanish (girl vanishes), 3-Fold Screen Production (Temple Screen), Blackstone’s 3-Card Monte, Girl From Nowhere, Indian Basket Illusion, Girl From Shadow, Trick Seance, Escape From Metal-Lined Box, Comedy Pile Driver Illusion, Slap Stick.
“These are prized secrets of the old-timer. Some have been handed down since 1890. Some were never printed before.”
Reproduced from the 1960 original. 13 pages 8½x11″ format.
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1 February 2025, 10:09 pm - Ep 185 – BRIANNA BELLADONNA, SWORD SWALLOWER
Episode 185
Sword Swallower Brianna Belladonna
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R.I.P. David “Doc” Rivera (in his Showmen’s Museum)
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24 Games Old and New – just $5
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Old Magician’s Notebook just $5
“Our Old Carny Magician, the one who led us through the pitfalls of building illusions, passed on in 1960. He was known as The Great Zara of the old Brundage Carnival. For years he supervised our magic plans, and in exchange, we helped him with the mail-order business he later operated.
“When he passed on the left us his notebooks on magic, and we took 20 of his illusions and put them together in one group: “The Old Magician’s Notebook”. They are detailed, the instructions tell how everything works, and we’ve made drawings from his sketches so you can build from them – but we don’t have a single dimension. So we won’t call them “plans”. What we sell as plans are actual building plans, with every possible dimension. We know these will work a (box to hold a man must of course be large enough for the man) but as we have not built these illusions, and he didn’t leave the dimensions, you will have to build them on your own.
“They include the following: Trilby’s Couch (Floating a Strange Lady), Drawing Board Drinks, Blackstone’s Vanishing Horse, Buried Alive On Stage, Amphitrite (Girl Whirls Through The Air), 3-Headed Lady, Vanishing an Elephant, Harlequin Decapitation (cut-off head smokes), Noah’s Ark (girl substitutes for animals), Magic Palanquin (girl vanishes from carried litter), Bullet Catch, Escape from Steel Tank, Transparent Trunk Vanish (girl vanishes), 3-Fold Screen Production (Temple Screen), Blackstone’s 3-Card Monte, Girl From Nowhere, Indian Basket Illusion, Girl From Shadow, Trick Seance, Escape From Metal-Lined Box, Comedy Pile Driver Illusion, Slap Stick.
“These are prized secrets of the old-timer. Some have been handed down since 1890. Some were never printed before.”
Reproduced from the 1960 original. 13 pages 8½x11″ format.
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1 January 2025, 7:35 am - Ep 184 – Afterschool Special
Episode 184 – Afterschool Special
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Bally CD (U.S. orders only) just $11.99
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Blade Box Plan pdf just $4
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Legal Execution Machines pdf just $4
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2 December 2024, 4:32 am - Ep 183 – Calling the Spirits
Episode 183 – Calling the Spirits
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The Expert Marksman pdf just $4
Order pdf with this link just $4Gibtown Movie on Youtube
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Brill’s Bible pdf just 5.99
(the old catalog only, not any plans)
1 November 2024, 4:47 pm - Ep 182 – Look Into My Eyes (Stage Hypnotism)
Episode 182
Look Into My Eyes
(Stage Hypnosis)
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And this is important, people…
My new and forever email – [email protected]The Museum of Illusions DC website – moiwashington.com
Kari the Mortician visits Colon, Michigan
Barnum museum website
The Barnum Museum | Bridgeport, Connecticut (barnum-museum.org)
Barnum museum Youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/@BarnumMuseum
Sideshow Tricks Explained – just $5 emailed to you
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The Strongman Package:
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“How to Perform Strong Man Stunts” +
“Sideshow and Animal Tricks”)
Just $6 all emailed to you
Gibtown Movie on Youtube
(Age restricted, follow this link, or it’s on Amazon Prime streaming)
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Showmen’s Museum (Follow this link)
Kevin Lepine Show
Four Queens Resort and Casino Las Vegas
Kevin’s Book – order thru this link:
Pseudo Hypnotic Act – pdf emailed to you
Quick Hypnotic Tricks – pdf emailed to you
1 October 2024, 9:12 am - Ep 181 – What Are You Worth?
Episode 181 – What Are You Worth?
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Sideshow Tricks Explained – just $5 emailed to you
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The Strongman Package:
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“How to Perform Strong Man Stunts” +
“Sideshow and Animal Tricks”)Just $6 all emailed to you
And by the way… you could get this:
,,,or you could get this:
Or this…
Or this…
Or even this…
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