The summery August Podcast contains the following topics:

• Why on earth do so many of us get involved in magic in the first place? I suggest a whole load of reasons why we might get involved in the art
• Duncan Trillo launches an interesting new initiative in which he invites fans of his MagicWeek website to become a MagicWeek Backer
• the football World Cup is over, but maybe there are some lessons to be learned about how not to jump on a bandwagon when it comes to publicity
• I finally release the 4th volume of my popular card magic series of E-Books
• there are many things to cope with as a table hopping magician, and none of them are anything to do with the magic itself
• download instructions are now all pervasive, a situation that has almost sneaked up on us all