Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring

Meets 7:00 pm, 1^st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC

LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.

www.okcmagic.club

We were pleased to host a lecture by Gregory Wilson. Gregory began by causing the appearance of a poker chip. He then invited James Schoonover to join him and proceeded to “vanish” the chip by placing it on James’ shoulder.

Gregory showed a ball point pen and repeatedly cuased the writing end to jump from one end of the pen to the other. He calls this “Pointless.”

Gregory asked if there were any golfers in the house and Jerry Bowzer stepped forward. Gregory brought out a box of golf balls, placed them on Jerry’s hand and asked him to guess how many balls were in the box. Jerry, an avid golfer, immediately said, “Three.” Gregory proceeded to remove four balls from the box. He put three of the balls back into the box and then took out four more balls. By the time the routine was over, there were at least eight golf balls.

Gegory showed a golf tee in each hand and then caused one tee to jump to the other hand. After he showed the secret, we all had trouble believing the “move” fooled us. Gregory asked someone to name a number between 1 and 100. He immediately reached into his pocket and removed exactly that much change and showed his pocket to then be empty.

Gregory showed a credit card on both sides and in a flash the card turned into bills. He called this “Cash Flow.”

Using Rick Johnson as his victim, I mean volunteer, Gregory performed a very entertaining pickpocket routine. During the routine he kept handing me items he had stolen from Rick. By the time it was over and he introduced me as his “partner in crime,” I was holding Rick’s folding money, keys, credit card and phone. He did not explain this routine.

Gregory very cleanly showed five one-dollar bills front and back. He then changed the bills to twenties. When everyone thought the trick was over, he changed them to one-hundred dollar bills.

Gregory performed a very nice ambitious card routine using a blank deck. He started by having Rick Johnson sign one of the cards and proceeded with a very fast-paced routine. At one point he held the deck in one hand with a blank card at the face and with a quick flick Rick’s signature appeared.

My only concern with Gregory’s lecture was that he bragged about using magic to get out of speeding tickets. My opinion is that this is a bad message to send. Otherwise, it was a very enjoyable and informative lecture.

The theme for our April meeting was “Let’s make magic.” Brian Tabor performed a “Bank Night” routine where each participant opened his envelope to find a one-dollar bill. Brian opened the unchosen envelope and removed a one-hundred dollar bill. He then passed out materials and taught everyone how to construc the stand he had used for loading the hundred-dollar bill.

Lee Woodside brought out three of his “friends” and place a rock by one, a pair of scissors by the second, and a piece of paper by the third. He invited three participants to switch the items around and then read his prediction as to who would win the game. It was spot on. Lee then gave everyone a pair of folding scissors and taught the routine.

David Teeman led the member performances by showing a pop-out microphone gag. He then showed a wood and plexiglass stand for performing 20^th Century Silks. He said that a friend had made it for him out of materials David scrounged from the trash bin.

Jim Green demonstrated a “Newton’s Nightmare.” He showed a long tube and a steel ball that fit into the tube. When he dropped the ball into the top of tube, it quickly fell out the bottom. However, when he invoked his magic spell, the ball took several seconds to traverse the tube.

Rick Martin, who has built several beautiful magic props in his workshop, showed us a couple of neat things. One was an accelerator for super glue. He said that when it is sprayed on one surface and super glue is put on another surface, the two will bond almost instantaneously. The other item he showed was a tape that can be applied to greatly reduce friction. Rick then showed a stand make from wood that does the same thing as the one Brian Tabor taught us how to build from card stock.

Lee Woodside

Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring

Meets 7:00 pm, 1^st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC

LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.

www.okcmagic.club

The first half of our March meeting was devoted to “Spring Cleaning.” Members were encouraged to bring magical items they were no longer using and turning them into cash. We had great particiapation, with many boxes of props and books for sale.

Our theme for the month was “Green Magic,” so naturally our featured performer was Jim Green. Jim handed Kallie an empty two-liter soda bottle and a balloon and asked her to place the balloon into the bottle and stretch the balloon’s opening around the top of the bottle. He demonstrated and was able to blow up his baloon inside the bottle. Not only that, the baloon did not deflate. Kallie was not able to blow up her baloon.

Jim closed with his “Stupid Bean Trick.” He filled a can with beans and briefly covered the can with a paper sack. When he reomoved the sack, he poured blue liquid from the can into a wine glass.

David Teeman showed a green cyclinder which was hinged along one side. He opened it to show that it was empty. However, when he closed it, he was able to pull two long multi-colored silk streamers from the end of the “empty” cylinder.

Lee Woodside invited Kevin Brasier and his lovely daughter, Molly to join him on stage. He introduced them to his three tree frogs, Monte, Thelma, and Louise and said that the object of the game was to keep their eyes on Monte. Molly won all the candy bars and her dad got a consolation prize, a jumping frog.

Bruce Rodesney told the story of how he had six dollars when he got to church, put three dollars into the collection plate, but still had six dollars when he got home. He repeated this several times with the same result. He had Jim Green select a playing card and then he played a video on his notepad that predicted the card Jim would choose.

Joe Coover showed us some magic that he said he had done 10,000 times, in several countries. He borrowed a wedding ring from Rick Martin, put the ring on his finger, and then removed it. However, the ring appeared back on his finger.

Joe invited Shaun Clark to join him “on stage.” He brought out a piece of string and performed a multi-phase routine with the ring and the string. The climax was when he placed the ring on the string and had Shaun and Daniel Buster hold the two ends. Joe was able to free the ring from the string.

Lee Woodside

Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring

Meets 7:00 pm, 1^st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC

LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.

www.okcmagic.club

We were very pleased to host a lecture by William Rader. William is a past president of Ring 46 and had moved to Denver, then Hungary, then Georgia (the country). He started his own company: Artisan Tarot.

William began by challenging Grant Vinson to a best two-out-of-three game of rock-paper-scissors. After the game, William removed a prediction from the envelope that had been in view the whole time. It correctly predicted that William would lose the game with his scissors being beat by his opponent’s rock.

William handed pendulums to several audience members and instructed them on how to use the pendulum to answer a “Yes/No” question. William then used his pendulum to divine an ESP card chosen by Brian Tabor.

William asked John Shack to think of a person he is close to and write the name on a blank business card. The card was then shuffled face down into a pack of business cards. William now went through the cards one at a time and placed each card onto the table, asking John to say stop at any time. When John said, “Stop,” William asked him to verify that the card held the name he had thought of. William then divined the name.

William asked Derrick Beeson to think of a phobia that he has and to write it on a piece of paper and fold it twice. He told Derrick to imagine that the fear is shrinking. He told him to put the folded paper in his pocket and to bring it out twice during the break, each time folding it one more time.

After the break, William asked Derrick to remove the paper from his pocket. The phobia he had written was no longer on the paper. William then named the phobia.

William asked Rick Johnson to join him “on stage.” He performed several experiments showing that a coin with the fourth and fifth Pentacles of Mercury would provide Rick with super-human strength.

William shuffled a deck of Major Arcana Tarot cards and offered them to Justin Teeman to cut. He then had Marty Ludlum, Shaun Clark, and Keven Brasier each take one of the Tarot cards. William offered a reading for each of the participants and then divined each card.

We highly recommend William’s lecture to anyone desiring an introduction into the world of pendulums, ESP cards, Tarot cards, billets and body magic. Even those magicians who do not intend to perform such effects would do well to include them in their knowledge base.

Solomon Strauss (AKA Brian Tabor) kicked off our February meeting as featured performer. Using two sets of five ESP cards, he had Cassidy Smith make several decisions, yet when pairs of cards were turned over, they all proved to be matching symbols.

Mr. Strauss laid several playing cards in a circle and placed the card box on one of the cards. He said that counting would commence from that point. He handed Rick Johnson a pair of dice and asked him to roll them several times to be sure they weren’t loaded. He then asked Rick to roll the dice one final time and the dice came up as a one and a four. He gave Rick the choice of the one, the four, or the total of five and Rick chose the number five. Solomon counted five places and turned over the card thus chosen. He turned it over and “Rick” was written on the back of the card. The other cards were turned over to reveal that there was no writing on the backs of them.

Solomon showed a deck which contained a different symbol on each card. He invited half a dozen audience members to each take one card and remember it. Solomon collected all the cards and mixed them. He was then able to divine the symbol chosen by each participant.

Michael King gave a glowing review of the magic show recently performed by Jen Kramer in Stillwater, OK. Cassidy Smith led a discussion on romantic magic effects. He then demonstrated how to make a napkin rose and produce a Hershey’s Kiss from it. He said that the multiplying rabbits effect was also a great trick.

Jerry Bowzer handed out decks of playing cards to those who did not get one at the January meeting. These were the Bicycle “Black Tiger” decks.

Cassidy Smith announced that he would like to come up with a magic effect with a ukulele. Several members offered suggestions.

David Teeman showed a four-sided, open-ended prop that looked like a traffic signal light. Red, yellow and green silk scarves were threaded through holes on opposite sides of the device. And end view showed the middles of the scarves blocking the passageway. However, David was able to place the device down over a soda bottle without disturbing the scarves.

David showed seven tiny plungers, each a different color. By a process of elimination, he and Derrick Beeson arrived at the pink plunger. David invited Derrick to reach into a sack full of the plungers and bring out one. Sure enough, the plunger was pink. (Yes, these would normally be used for a card routine like the one that fooled Penn, but not Teller on “Fool Us”.)

Lee Woodside asked that everyone look back in time and think of a year that had special romantic significance for them. Cassidy Smith volunteered that he had a year in mind. Lee asked him to write it on the back of a business card and hand it back to him face down. Lee placed it into his business card wallet without looking at the year. Lee then removed another card from the wallet and began writing. It turned out that he had written numbers into a 4 X 4 grid. Lee asked Cassidy to sum the numbers in any row, column or diagonal. The sum was 2014, which Cassidy said was the year he had in mind.

Cassidy Smith shared a two-ring linking ring routine that he has been working on. He said that the routine is a metaphor for relationships. He performed the beautiful routine to the music “Time After Time, by Cyndi Lauper.

Lee Woodside

Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring

Meets 7:00 pm, 1^st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC

LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.

www.okcmagic.club

President Cassidy Smith led off our January meeting as the featured performer. He began with a three-ring linking ring routine. Next he added a loop of rope and linked and unlinked the rope to a ring. He untied the rope and tossed it into a paper sack. After an incantation, he withdrew the rope and showed that it was “Tide” in the middle.

Cassidy asked Justin Teeman to select a card and to show it around while Cassidy’s back was turned. He withdrew a pocket mirror and got laughs as he tried to view the selection. The card was returned to the deck and Cassidy produced several Aces, each of which Justin said was not his selected card. Finally, Cassidy removed the mirror from his pocket and showed that the Queen of Spades, the selected card, was now on the face of it. Cassidy started some music and performed a silk fountain routine, culminating in a silk scarf that proclaimed “The End.”

Cassidy went over the schedule of meetings for 2025. He then asked the audience what they wanted to learn in the New Year. Several members responded with their magical goals for the year.

Our business meeting was very brief, as usual. Cassidy told us about the opportunity for a lecture by Gregory Wilson. Eight people volunteered to sponsor the lecture, so it will happen.

Brian Tabor demonstrated the effect Liquify. He transformed a puddle of white fluid in his hand into a finger ring. He said his only complaint with the trick is that it does not support the use of a red liquid. He said that ketchup is almost always available and would be very visual.

David Teeman asked Bruce Rodesney to join him “on stage.” He showed Bruce several cards with images on them that he had removed from a black bag. He asked Bruce to select one of the cards and Bruck selected the horseshoe. David dumped out the remaining contents of the bag, which proved to be a poker chip, The poker chip came from the Horsehoe Casino in Las Vegas.

Derrick Beeson showed off the effect “Repo,” which consisted of a small chain and a small key. He linked the key onto the chain and then it melted off the chain.

Bruce Rodesney set up a laptop computer and showed video from one of our Pandemonium of Magic public shows from many years ago. John Pansze introduced Bruce and Bruce performed an illusion using a blanket. Twice he attempted to produce a tiger and failed. Finally, he went under the blanket and appeared to be in a fight for his life. When he came out, his clothes were all in tatters, apparently ripped to shreds by the “tiger.”

Bruce then amazed us with his thimble magic and by the divination of a number being thought of by everyone in the audience.

Lee Woodside passed out copies of the novels Dracula and Frankenstein forthe audience members to examine while he talked about history the books. He asked Derrick Beeson to select either book and join him “on stage.” Lee leafed through the book and asked Derrick to stop him at any point. (This was not a page force.) He asked Derrick to remember the first word on the page and Lee was then able to divine the word. Lee asked if any of the audience members found anything suspicious in their examination of the books and only David Teeman said that he did.

Lee Woodside

Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring

Meets 7:00 pm, 1^st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC

LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.

www.okcmagic.club

We had a great turnout for our December Holiday Party. The Ring provided turkey, ham and soft drinks and the members brought sides, salads & desserts. After a great meal, we began our annual Stage/Parlor Magic contest.

President Cassidy Smith introduced Cassandra Crowe as the first contestant. She placed four white balls and one black ball into a paper sack and invited five participants to each draw out one ball and keep it hidden. She then divined who held the black ball.

Kevin Brasier invited three audience members to each choose a card and then return it to the deck. Kevin brought out his sword, threw the deck of cards into the air, and impaled the three chosen cards onto the blade of the sword.

Lee Woodside showed a deck of cards as all being different. He placed rubber bands around one end of the deck and tossed the deck to Rick Johnson and asked him to peek at one card. Rick handed the deck to Molly, who followed Rick’s example. This was repeated with Kallie and Grant. Lee concentrated and divined all four cards. He then handed certificates to all of the participants recognizing their capablities as telepathic communicators.

Shaun Clark showed four small chrome rings. He demonstrated the ability of the rings to link and unlink.

Brian Tabor showed a leather cone and a white ball. The ball was able to penetrate the cone. He also caused the ball to multiplay. He the showed a paper sack and asked Grace to name any fruit. She chose ‘apple.’ Instead of an apple, however, the bag contained a lemon. Brian caused the lemon to change into a crumpled up piece of orange paper. When the paper was unfolded, the word ‘Apple’ was written on it.

David Teeman placed a silk scarf into a small wooden caddy. He showed a small casket that was clear on all sides. After making a magical gesture with his wand (a toilet plunger with a magic wand as a handle), he showed the caddy empty and then the silk scarf magically appeared in the small casket.

While the votes were being tallied, Kevin Brasier showed us his collection of books detailing the contruction of stage illusions. He also showed books and DVDs about the performance of illusions. Kevin has constructed and performed the ZigZag Girl and the Metamorphosis illusions among others.

After Michael King had tallied the results, Cassidy Smith announced the winners of the contest. Brian Tabor took first place, Kevin Brasier second place, and Lee Woodside third place.

Lee Woodside

Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring

Meets 7:00 pm, 1^st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC

LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.

www.okcmagic.club

President Cassidy Smith was unable to attend, so our November meeting was called to order by Vice President Justin Teeman. Michael King presented the Treasurer’s report, which showed that our Ring was in good financial shape. We appealed for sponsors for a lecture by Trevor Duffy next August and were able to get enough sponsors to book the lecture.

Our annual election of officers was very quick. With no additional nominations, the current officers were re-elected by acclamation.

Derrick Beeson handed Michael King a solid finger ring for examination. After taking back the ring, Derrick caused it to jump from finger to finger and then caused it to vanish.

David Teeman showed a dragon scarf that he had gotten from his grandmother to use as a foulard for his Zombie act. David domonstrated his Zombie skills and gave a few pointers. He then showed a wooden croquet ball with a hole drilled through it. When he ran a cord through the hole in the ball, he was able to cause the ball to stop at any point on the cord. David also presented his color-divination routine, using four crayons like those offered to restaurant guests. He said that his routine dates back to when he performed magic at a birthday party when he was eight years-old.

We had plenty of time for sesssioning and dining on the pizza provided by the Brasier family and the cupcakes donated by David Teeman.

Lee Woodside

Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring

Meets 7:00 pm, 1^st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC

LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.

www.okcmagic.club

Our theme for October was “Telling a Story with a Deck of Playing Cards.” President Cassidy Smith introduced Michael King as our featured performer for the evening. Michael told the entertaining story of Jack Spade, New Age Detective as he turned over cards that matched the story. He continuously shuffled and cut the deck as he did so. Michael then told the somewhat risque story of a King, his Queen, and his mistress with lots of double entendres. The moral of the story was that one can’t have his Kate and Edith too.

Our best trick of the evening was by Cassandra Crowe. We noticed that there were now two of her. None of us had known that she had a twin sister, Eileen.

David Teeman told the story of the Four Brothers. The brothers went out for a walk and, one at a time, they turned back to get a drink. (Like twisting the Aces.) As a kicker ending, the backs of the Bicycle cards all turned into Coca Cola products. David came up with this routine and markets it as “Refreshment Rainbow.”

Michael King invited Cassandra and Eileen to join him “on stage.” He showed a ribbon and several Chinese coins and caused the coins to penetrate the ribbon multiple times. He said this was the “Charming Chinese Challenge,” by Troy Hooser.

Lee Woodside told the story of a young cowboy on his first cattle drive. The young cowboy went into Dodge City and met four beautiful ladies, but when he woke up the next morning, he found that it had all been a dream and there were just dusty cowpokes around the campfire with him.

Cassidy Smith performed the “Sam the Bellhop” routine made famous by Bill Malone. He even had a bell like those at a hotel check-in counter.

Cassandra Crowe enlisted Cassidy Smith, Michael King, and David Teeman to play the part of the three witches in her production of Macbeth. She spread a deck of playing cards face down onto a piece of cardboard and as each witch read a prediction, Cassandra stabbed a card with a knife. Sure enough, she had stabbed the four kings.

The names of all the evening’s performers were placed into a hat and Justin Teeman drew one name. It turned out that his dad, David Teeman, won a Bicycle Mental Photography deck.

Lee Woodside

Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring

Meets 7:00 pm, 1^st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC

LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.

www.okcmagic.club

President Cassidy Smith introduced David Teeman, who gave us a rundown on the recent TAOM/SAM Convention that he and Justin attended over the Labor Day weekend. He showed us several tricks he had acquired and performed one called “Great Magicians Are in SAM,” which was a card match-up routine along the lines of “Will the cards match?”

The rest of the September meeting was devoted to our annual flea market and appraisal auction. As usual, Lee Woodside was our intrepid auctioneer. There was a lot of spirited bidding and some great deals were made.

Lee Woodside

Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring

Meets 7:00 pm, 1^st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC

LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.

www.okcmagic.club

Our August theme was Liquid Magic and Lee Woodside kicked off the meeting with his “Captain Lee’s Magic Medicine Show.” Lee left out the gags and bits of business he usual employs and focused on liquid magic effects. He began by telling how he collects the magical waters used in making the miracle fluid from a small mountain spring on land held sacred by the Shoshone (small lota pitcher). Next he demonstrated how he tests the waters for the special magnetic properties necessary (hydrostatic glass). He stacked three small tumblers and showed how the magic elixir goes straight to where it’s needed. For a belly ache, the liquid accumulated in the middle tumbler, for a headache, it went to the top tumbler, and for a big toe sore from gout, it went straight to the bottom tumbler. Lee ended by showing why one may need to buy only one bottle of the medicine. He poured a dose of the medicine into a small glass and then proceeded to pour from that glass into progressively bigger ones (multum in parvo). Throughout the presentation, he used a large lota bowl as a running gag. Lee fielded questions about the various effects.

President Cassidy Smith demonstrated how to produce a liquid load in a cups and balls routine. He then performed Will Golden’s “Super Aerial Glass,” where he poured wine from a bottle into a goblet and, when he released his hold on the goblet, it floated.

David Teeman showed off a gospel magic routine where red liquid turns other liquids clear when they are mixed together.

Cassidy Smith stressed the importance of one’s entrance to the performing area. He invited each member to demonstrate his or her entrance. David Hira and Howard Hale were mentioned as magician who know how to make an entrance.

David Teeman demonstrated his quick coffee brewing machine. He showed the ground coffee in the top of the apparatus and when he placed the cover on and removed it, he had delicious brewed coffee.

Professor Ludicrous (AKA Rick Martin) made a cone from a sheet of newspaper and poured milk from a pitcher into the cone. When he unfurled the newspaper at the audience, the milk had vanished.

Brian Tabor rolled a dollar bill into a cylinder and placed it on a credit card. He visibly poured liquid into the small cylinder, but when he unrolled the bill, the liquid had vanished.

The names of all the performers were placed into a hat and one name was drawn. Lee Woodside became the proud new owner of John Bannon’s “Call of the Wild.”

Lee Woodside

Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Seymour Davis Ring

Meets 7:00 pm, 1^st Monday of the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S. Pennsylvania in OKC

LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email: WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.

www.okcmagic.club

Our annual “Pandemonium of Magic” public show was a rousing success. David Teeman welcomed everyone to the show and introduced President Cassidy Smith as the emcee. Cassidy produced a rose, caused it to multiply, and then changed the color from white to red.

Rick Martin, AKA Professor Ludicrous from the Skunkworks Laboratories, showed a gadget from the firm’s archives that he said he had been trying to figure out. Colored switches always seemed to control the bulbs of the corresponding colors, no matter how the bulbs and switch covers were moved around. He removed one bulb from the socket and attempted to turn it on while he held it in his hand, but was met with a shower of sparks.

Rick Johnson showed a cereal box empty and then poured cereal from the “empty” box into a cereal bowl. He showed a paper sack that he said contained a drink and asked an audience member to name any drink. When an audience member said “orange juice,” Rick removed a can of Dr. Pepper from the sack with a shrug. However, when he poured out the liquid, it proved to be orange juice. He repeated this with another audience member and poured milk from a newly opened Dr. Pepper can.

Rick invited an audience member with a cell phone to join him on stage. He placed her phone into a manila envelope and sealed the envelope. He brought out five fake phones and placed each one into a similar envelope. After mixing the envelopes, he numbered them one through six. He handed the participant a die and asked her to roll it to select a phone. When she rolled a four, Rick set the number four envelope on the table and pounded it with a hammer. This process continued, with much laughter from the audience, until only one envelope remained. He handed this one to the lady and she opened it to reveal her phone.

Brian Tabor performed what he said was his first trick in magic. After showing a candle, he wrapped it in a silk scarf and pulled forth a flower. He threw the scarf to the floor and there was a loud clang when the “candle” hit the floor.

Brian asked three ladies in the audience to each write the name of her first crush on a small piece of paper. He then asked them to drop the pieces of paper into his jacket pocket so he would not know which was which. He pulled the first two pieces of paper from his pocket, read the names, and divined which of the ladies had written each name. He asked the third lady to think of the name she wrote and then divined the name. Brian ended by performing a very entertaining version of the multiplying bottles.

Lee Woodside, AKA “Captain Lee,” honored the military veterans in the audience. He played the anthem of each of the armed services and asked that any vets who served in that service please stand up. He had Brynna and Braylee take a small American flag to each of the honorees. Lee concluded by performing his medicine show multum in parvo routine.

David Teeman unfolded two giant dice and nested them. When he lifted the dice, there was Braylee. David Performed a very moving piece about God, man and sin, each represented by a different color block. The three blocks were threaded on cords, with sin separating God and man. A red silk scarf was placed over the ‘sin’ block and that block penetrated the cords and crashed to the floor, leaving God and man together again. David invited a girl from the audience to help him with a magic trick. David handed her a wand and asked her to wave it over his hand, into which he had stuffed a red silk hanky. The trick failed, so David called for a bigger wand. This continued until the final wand was humongous and the trick finally worked.

Michael King, AKA the “One-Man Circus,” dazzled the audience with his juggling, plate spinning, and unicycle riding abilities. He said he learned these skills when he ran away and joined the circus for a year.

Kevin Brasier and his daughter Molly, along with Molly’s friends Summer and Austin, treated the audience to several illusions. In a gender role reversal, Molly locked Austin into a tall box, inserted steal blades, and pulled his middle section out to the side. After reversing the process, Austin stepped out of the box none the worse for wear. Kevin placed Molly into a box and began inserting geometric shapes through the box, making it seem impossible that she could still be in the box. After removing the shapes, Kevin opened the door and not only was Molly unscathed, but her friend Summer had joined her.

Kevin asked for a volunteer from the audience and a lady came up on stage. Kevin unveiled a wicked-looking head chopper and showed that it was able to easily slice carrots. He locked the lady’s head into the device, and after the usual comedy byplay, he brought down the blade. Fortunately, she was magically unharmed. For the climax of the show, Molly locked Kevin into a sack that was in a large wooded box. She then securely locked the box. She stood on the box holding a large curtain. When she held the curtain over her head and dropped it, there was Kevin standing in her place. Unfortunately, Molly was securely locked in the box because Kevin had accidentally dropped the key. The audience members were thanked for coming and told the show was over. However, no one moved until the key was located and Molly was successfully retrieved from the box.

The theme of our July meeting was “Picnic Magic.” President Cassidy Smith laid a blanket on the floor and set his picnic basket on it. He showed that his lunch box was empty by dropping the two sides. When he closed the box, he took out a thermos, which he said worked like a foo can. He caused a spoon to vanish and then demonstrated his ability to juggle drinking glasses. He put the rim of a plate into his mouth and “bit off” a piece of the plate, which he then restored. Finally, he showed a large ladybug, split it into two ladybugs and performed a sponge ball routine with the two bugs.

Lee Woodside said that picnics are all about food and fun. He said that he had a game that emphasized those two things and invited Kallie and Molly to compete against each other. Lee dumped out a bunch of small drawstring bags, each containing a Hershey’s nugget candy bar. He asked Molly if she preferred the plain or the almond, and she chose the plain. This left Kallie with the almonds. Lee invited the two ladies to take turns using their psychic abilities or their women’s intuition to pick a bag containing the correct chocolate. If they got it right, they got to keep the candy bar. If they got it wrong, the bar went into a discard paper bag. At the conclusion of the game, Lee turned the bag around to show the prediction that Molly would choose almonds and would lose by one. Sure enough, Kallie had eight chocolates and Molly had only seven. However, they were both winners because they got to keep the chocolates they had correctly divined.

David Teeman placed a yellow silk scarf into a change bag. He said that sanity could be determined by what color scarf one sees. He invited Cassidy and Kallie to participate. He showed the open end of the bag to Cassidy and he said he saw yellow. He did the same for Kallie and she saw red. Finally, David removed a rainbow silk scarf from the bag and said, “There is no sanity clause.”

Cassidy invited Rick Johnson, Rick Martin, and Kevin Brasier to each select a card and place it back into the deck. Cassidy said that he had a jumbo card with a prediction of Rick’s card. It turned out the be the venerable 52-on-1 card. Since no one seemed to be impressed, Cassidy brought out his insurance policy covering such magical catastrophes. He opened it up and showed Rick Johnson’s card. He unfolded it once more and there was Rick Martin’s card. Unfolding the policy all the way revealed a very large image of Kevin’s card.

The week after our July meeting, we hosted an ice cream social. The magicians and their families enjoyed ice cream cones, banana splits, root beer floats, brownies, and sodas. It was a great way to beat Oklahoma’s July heat.

Lee Woodside