Ballycast
Wayne Keyser
News and interviews with showmen and performers (old and new) plus music and more!
- 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
My new (and forever) email – [email protected]
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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My new (and forever) email – [email protected]
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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My new and forever email – [email protected]
The Expert Marksman pdf just $4
Order pdf with this link just $4Gibtown Movie on Youtube
(Age restricted, follow this link, or it’s on Amazon Prime streaming)
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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:
(Lulu Hurst’s “how she did it” bio +
“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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My new and forever email – [email protected]
Sideshow Tricks Explained – just $5 emailed to you
Order pdf with this link just $5
The Strongman Package:
(Lulu Hurst’s “how she did it” bio +
“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…
1 September 2024, 6:24 am - Ep 180 – Selling Food at the Fair
Episode 180 – Selling Food at the Fair
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Links to suppliers of wholesale fair foods:
victorproducts.com/concessions
Internet Archive Banned Book List
Sideshow Tricks Explained – just $5 emailed to you
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Your State’s Cottage Food Laws
“You Asked For It” Headless Woman
4k Video Downloader free utility to get Youtube videos
Format Factory free utility to change many formats
https://archive.org/details/johnballadeer00well/page/n11/mode/2up
Read John the Balladeer book (click on the link above)
They sold booklets like this at “those movies”
Brill Legal Execution Machines pdf
PDF file just $41 August 2024, 12:23 pm - Ep 179 – Naughty Tunes
Episode 179 – Naughty Tunes!
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Ask AI a careful question, you might get a decent answer.
Maybe.
Gemini (google.com)Links to suppliers of bulk wholesale fair foods:
victorproducts.com/concessions
Building the 4-WayJoint – just $4 emailed to you
4-Way Joint Plan – order with this link
pdf file emailed to you just $4Dick Zigun, unofficial unelected mayor of Coney Island
here’s a link to his site
Dick Zigun
Funhouse Philosophers LLC
2859 West 15th Street
Brooklyn NY 11224
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MY BALLOON RULES:
1 — Adult supervision is required. Do not give to children under 8! CHOKING HAZARD!
2 — You must be here to get one.
3 — One balloon per person. You can have another after everyone has been served once.
4 — I DECIDE WHO’S NEXT!
Smiling people right away, pretty girls as soon as possible, annoying people later (maybe never).
5 — When it’s time for me to stop, I have to stop.
Yes, really! I’m sorry if you came too late, I’ll take you first next year.Brill 24 Games Old and New
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Archive.org View Harryhausen deposition
Remembering imposter Bruce Lee (all of them)
Link to Severin Films
Brill Girl in Fishbowl
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Easy to Build – Order It Here – JUST $5
1 July 2024, 7:42 am - Ep 178 – Wheel of Fortune
Episode 178 – Wheel of Fortune
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Sharp Shooting and Quick Draw act
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Carny Mitch Candiano on “This Past Weekend”
Exploring World’s Largest Abandoned Theme Park – Wonderland Eurasia
My new email – [email protected]
My historic DVD now free on Youtube
The Carnival’s Been and Gone (youtube.com)
Brill’s Bible pdf file is just $5.99 emailed to you
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