For the third time, I attended Jame Randi’s Amaz!ng Meeting. I was at the very first TAM in 2003, but missed TAM 2 and 3. Last year, as with this year, I attended with my brother Josh who generously donated his timeshare points to the cause.

We both flew into Vegas around the same time, both arriving a few minutes late. We rushed to the Riviera, where the conference was being held, and registered. I also picked up tickets for the Banachek show that night. We didn’t have time to stay for the opening ceremonies, but came back later for the Banacheck show.

My brother was not familiar with Banachek, and my only knowledge of him came from the Criss Angel show “Mindfreak” as well as reading about him and the Project Alpha hoax. It was an amazing show. Knowing that he possesses no psychic abilities whatsoever, makes the whole show more amazing. His first trick was to pick four random people from the audience, tell them to pick a card, and then guess what their card was. He guessed four out of four. The whole show was filled with amazing mentalism tricks that I have no idea how he accomplished. At some points, I thought that the audience members just had to be in on it, it was so well done. It was one of the most entertaining shows I’ve ever seen. A great way to start off the TAM experience.

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