961: Michael Breggar - Everything Matters
From The Magic Word Podcast by Scott Wells
April 2, 2026 · 1h 7m · Episode 961
About this episode
Michael Breggar discusses the importance of creativity in magic and how to enhance old tricks with new scripting.
Michael Breggar is a columnist for The Linking Ring journal (the house organ for the I.B.M.) and has written dozens of articles about putting new scripting ideas to old close-up tricks. He has also authored several books that fit his style and are quite cleverly written. For example, “The Expert at the Cod Table” by S.W. Ordfish and “Raiders of the Lost Card” by “Jerseyana” Michael Breggar. These tongue-in-cheek titles give a glimpse into his comical and satirical thinking and writing. Michael has also invented and marketed several magic tricks (mostly with a comedic mental twist) that are part of some professional magician’s repertoires. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize The reason I wanted to talk with my friend on the podcast this week was to let the rest of the magic community into his creative mind with the hopes that listeners will be inspired to think of some of the old tricks that they (we) have been performing for years and consider updating them with clever new scripting. But our conversation quickly becomes quite deep as we talk about the importance of building a strong routine and act using the three legs of building a show. In a…
People in this episode
Host: Scott Wells
Guest: Michael Breggar
Topics covered
- magic
- scripting
- performance
- creativity
- audience perception
Keywords
- magic tricks
- scripting ideas
- performance routine
- audience engagement
- comedic mentalism
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: The Linking Ring, I.B.M.
Books & works: The Expert at the Cod Table, Raiders of the Lost Card
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