{"id":6025,"date":"2025-02-01T17:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T22:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ballycast.com\/?p=6025"},"modified":"2025-02-05T19:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T00:05:09","slug":"ep-186-ouch-thats-sharp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballycast.com\/?p=6025","title":{"rendered":"Ep 186 &#8211; Ouch That&#8217;s Sharp!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;\"><strong>Episode 186 &#8211; <\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 32px;\">Ouch, That&#8217;s Sharp!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6026\" src=\"http:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_banner.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_banner-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_banner-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>(Right-click and \u201csave as\u201d\u2026)<\/strong><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/ballycast-186-2025-02-01.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download standard podcast mp3 file \u2013 Episode 186<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6028\" src=\"http:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_to-the-hilt-book.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"788\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_to-the-hilt-book.jpg 788w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_to-the-hilt-book-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_to-the-hilt-book-600x780.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_to-the-hilt-book-768x998.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Link to buy the book\u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hilt-Sword-Swallowers-History-Swallowing\/dp\/0764368826\/\">To the Hilt: A Sword Swallower&#8217;s History of Sword Swallowing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6034\" src=\"http:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The_great_Victorina_Troupe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The_great_Victorina_Troupe.jpg 622w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The_great_Victorina_Troupe-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The_great_Victorina_Troupe-600x909.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">George the Giant\u2019s Strange Museum of Oddities &amp; Wonders.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/giantsoddities.com\/\">Welcome | Keeping Bakersfield Strange Since 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coneyisland.com\/nocasino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-family: arial black,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>NO Coney Island Casino<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6032\" src=\"http:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_ConeyIslandtakeover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_ConeyIslandtakeover.jpg 750w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_ConeyIslandtakeover-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_ConeyIslandtakeover-600x369.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/museemecanique.com\/\">Musee Mechanique at Fisherman&#8217;s Wharf<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6029\" src=\"http:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_musee-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_musee-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_musee-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_musee-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_musee-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_musee-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_musee-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">Ghost Light<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6030\" src=\"http:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_GHOST_LIGHT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"823\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_GHOST_LIGHT.jpg 823w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_GHOST_LIGHT-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_GHOST_LIGHT-600x420.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/186_GHOST_LIGHT-768x538.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 823px) 100vw, 823px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Sword Swallowers Association International<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wayne.keyser.3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-family: arial black,sans-serif; 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font-size: 18pt;\">Brill Electric Chair Illusion &#8211; pdf just $6<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6041\" src=\"http:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Electric-Chair-Illusion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Electric-Chair-Illusion.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Electric-Chair-Illusion-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Electric-Chair-Illusion-600x776.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Electric-Chair-Illusion-768x994.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\">https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/ncp\/payment\/VQ7S44938JM4C<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Old Magician&#8217;s Notebook just $5<\/span><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6015\" src=\"http:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/brill-old-magicians-notebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/brill-old-magicians-notebook.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/brill-old-magicians-notebook-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;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.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;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: &#8220;The Old Magician&#8217;s Notebook&#8221;. They are detailed, the instructions tell how everything works, and we&#8217;ve made drawings from his sketches so you can build from them &#8211; but we don&#8217;t have a single dimension. So we won&#8217;t call them &#8220;plans&#8221;. 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&#8217;t leave the dimensions, you will have to build them on your own.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;They include the following: Trilby&#8217;s Couch (Floating a Strange Lady), Drawing Board Drinks, Blackstone&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;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.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;These are prized secrets of the old-timer. Some have been handed down since 1890. Some were never printed before.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span class=\"style1\">Reproduced from the 1960 original. 13 pages 8\u00bdx11&#8243; format.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/ncp\/payment\/8747HURT5K2AE\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\">https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/ncp\/payment\/8747HURT5K2AE<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ballycast.com\/?p=2062\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3008\" src=\"http:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Download-Any-Episode-600x323.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Download-Any-Episode-600x323.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Download-Any-Episode-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ballycast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Download-Any-Episode.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 186 &#8211; Ouch, That&#8217;s Sharp! 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