Dear friend,
If you’ve been around here long you’ll know I’ve always been an advocate of learning unique ideas directly from people who are passionate about their craft.
I believe an extremely underutilised learning platform for magicians are podcasts so I’ve decided to wade through the 40+ ‘magic’ ones out there to create a unique guide to help you choose from the very best of the best.
What are the best podcasts for magicians?
- Magic Detective
- Magical Thinking
- The Insider
- Magic From Wherever I’m At
- The Magicians Podcast
- The Magic Word with Scott Wells
- The M Word with Ben Earl
- Magicians Advice Podcast
- Discourse in Magic
- Of Sleights and Men
Okay, let’s kick things off and get going!
This list will be completely subjective so feel free to disagree with me on my list. I’d be happy to hear another opinion if you think I’ve missed one you love (leave your feedback in the comments section just below this post)!
Number 10 Pick: Magic Detective
Number of Episodes: 92
Still Running: Yes
Our Rating: 4/5
The Magic Detective Podcast is a weekly podcast about the history of magic and magicians. The host, Dean Carnegie, tells stories about Houdini, and many lesser known magicians.
This podcast is honestly fantastic and we believe it’s an exciting resource for any magician (or historian) who wants to learn the fascinating past of this wonderful art.
Suggested Episode: Ching Loo Foo: The Original Chinese Conjurer
Dale tells the life story of Ching Ling Foo, the original Chinese magician who created a sensation at the turn of the century! It’s an amazing story, filled with occasional tragedy.
Number 9 Pick: Magical Thinking
Number of Episodes: 92
Still Running: No
Our Rating: 4.25/5
Elliott Terral, the host of this podcast, has been obsessed with magic for over a decade.
He’s been fortunate enough to travel the globe to meet some of the greatest magicians in the world.
- Simon Aronson ✔️
- Max Maven ✔️
- Asi Wind ✔️
- Piff the Magic Dragon ✔️
His podcast, Magical Thinking, serves to share deep, revealing conversations with some of the best creative thinkers, philosophers, and practitioners of conjuring and the performing arts about inspiration, creativity, successes and failures, and what it all means! These episodes are long!
I haven’t seen much activity on this podcast in a while as the latest episode was released in 2020, when Elliot sat down to chat with Noah Levine.
Recommend Episode: Piff the Magic Dragon
Elliott sits down with the always hilarious Piff and Piffles for a fun chat about magic, characters, performance, and comedy!
Number 8 Pick: The Insider
Number of Episodes: 153
Still Running: No
Our Rating: 4.25/5
This is a really great podcast. For three years, every week, Damian Jennings interviewed the most interesting and important magicians from around the world in just 30 minutes.
This is Vanishing Inc’s official podcast!
Recommend Episode: 6 Impossible Things: Round Table
Number 7 Pick: Magic From Wherever I’m At
Number of Episodes: 150
Still Running: Yes
Our Rating: 4.25/5
This is definitely a good podcast for all the deep thinking magicians out there!
Professional street magician Dartagnan regales with tales of people, places, and situations from the road as well as delving into the true nature of the performing art of Magic.
Recommended Episode: Where Tricksters Never Dare
Number 6 Pick: The Magicians Podcast
Number of Episodes: 100
Still Running: No
Our Rating: 4.5/5
Richard began this podcast in 2014 and since has created and published 100 episodes, ending with a spectacular finale.
He interviewed the worlds most famous and successful magicians including…
- Derren Brown ✔️
- David Copperfield ✔️
- Dynamo ✔️
- Paul Daniels ✔️
…and is a guest writer on One Ahead!
Recommend Episode: David Copperfield
The 100th episode and season finale features an epic 2 hour interview with the greatest magician of all time David Copperfield in an interview unlike any you will have ever heard before.
Number 5 Pick: The Magic Word with Scott Wells
Number of Episodes: 100
Still Running: Yes
Our Rating: 4.5/5
Scott Wells is a full time professional magician who has traveled around the world where he has met, worked with and become friends with some pretty cool people.
This is a very enjoyable podcast where magicians talk about their magic, magic conventions and what’s going on in the magic scene today.
Recommended Episode: Andi Gladwin: It’s a Business
Number 4 Pick: The M Word with Ben Earl
Number of Episodes: 24
Still Running: No
Our Rating: 4.75/5
“There is a rawness to these podcasts which I love, it feels true and the insights gained are worth every second of your time. Also very witty and enjoyable to listen to.”
Magician and creative artist Ben Earl takes us on a deeply personal journey to explore meaning, mastery and magic.
Recommended Episode: We Are All Still Wearing Nappies
Number 3 Pick: Magicians Advice Podcast
Number of Episodes: 190
Still Running: Yes
Our Rating: 5/5
Magicians Phill Taylor and Ian Brennan talk all things magic and share honest and actionable advice on how YOU can improve your magic.
This is a brilliant podcast, with more episodes then you could possible listen too, dedicated to helping you improve your magic.
Those looking to take their magic from a hobbiest to pro should definitely consider investing their time into this masterpiece.
Recommend Episode: How To Deal With Your Nerves
Number 2 Pick: Discourse in Magic
Number of Episodes: 300!!!
Still Running: Yes
Our Rating: 5/5
This podcast deserves to be number one for the amount of episodes they’ve managed to ground out alone!
But since we’re all aware of the upcoming shameless self-promotion…
…it makes perfect sense why this has came in at number two, here at THE DAILY MAGICIAN.
In this podcast, Jonah Babins and Tyler Williams, from Discourse in Magic tackle magic’s hardest issues, theories, philosophies, and discussions.
They jump into all sorts of resources and most importantly actionable tips to help YOU better the art and become a killer performer!
Highly reccomended!
Recommended Episode: Magic Appetizer: 3 Ways to Make 3k
Number 1 Pick: Of Sleights and Men
Number of Episodes: 55
Still Running: YES!!!
Our Rating: 10/10
Surprise, surprise…
The number one podcast is mine! But of, course, we’re very biased.
Of Sleights and Men is ALL about thinking differently; the more we learn, the more interesting and innovative our magic/life is.
We bring on magicians (and other guests) and ask them questions, in a relaxed setting, we guarantee you’ve never heard before.
Recommended Episode?
Let’s start at the beginning…
David Blaine Made Us Harass Grandmas?
Welcome to the very first episode of ‘Of Sleights and Men!’
In this episode, Jacob and I decided to introduce ourselves by getting deep into some of our magic ‘horror stories’, including…
- The ‘EXTRA bold’ bold book test that I insisted on performing (despite screwing up nearly every time)
- Why Jacob used to harass grandmas (no excuse for this one, all we can do is apologize)
- The weird ‘T Rex’ pose that scuppered my ‘which hand’ routine
- Our ‘unethical’ performance that went a little bit TOO well
- How I ruined my reputation at school with a ‘card to impossible location’ that left me scarred for years to come (I’ve never shared this anywhere else before)
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