He is very funny, silly, and smart. The tricks taught are awesome, but i took down a star because of the small amount of time talking about how we can improve, and the big amount of time on how he was on tv and his experience. Also some of the tricks he says that will be available to buy soon at penguin, WHEN?
some tricks require diy, but you don't get any instructions on how to make them, for example, the paper wand prediction is a great trick, but to get the paper wand you have to make the file yourself on photoshop/word.
The glue bottle is cool, but will be hatd to recreate.
The cannons and party poppers are the best part- so good and fun!
I'd recommend for stand up magicians and stage magicians!

I'm not a builder, at all. However, after watching this lecture I got that tingling sensation of this is something I might wanna try and this was the push I maybe needed. The routines here are good and very funny. The paper wand is where my jaw dropped because of the clever thinking here.

I do wanna say that it's not the first time this is happening, where a magician kind of teaches a routine but the prop is not available. The first routine here is cool and smart, but you can't do it since you can't but it, and Eric doesn't teach it. It could be nice for future products to be released first or at least give a date so we can expect that.

Other than that, The lecture is pretty good. When he teaches, Eric's teaching is good. Also, the stories of his TV appearances are nice and have meaningful points to take home.

This wasn't the best one I saw, but it certainly is not bad and you will get something out of this.

Good parlor magic is in short supply. Creativity in parlor magic more so. Eric fills that need with practical fun effects.

I heard some really good ideas from this lecture. Was it as good as some others Penguin had, the answer is it was a 4 star lecture from my view point. But i gave it 5 stars because he was brave enough to give a lecture, and he had some really good ideas in it

Loved this lecture. He's such a creative guy! The silk idea in bag was priceless and you can use it for a one phase chair routine or part of multi-phase like his. So many cool ideas that now have my brain on fire because you can use some of his thinking in other direction. Oh, and his storytelling will show you how a pro thinks and how many things work backstage when you go to the big leagues. He's such a funny, creative guy. Loved it!!

Loved this lecture. He's such a creative guy! The silk idea in bag was priceless and you can use it for a one phase chair routine or part of multi-phase like his. So many cool ideas that now have my brain on fire because you can use some of his thinking in other direction. Oh, and his storytelling will show you how a pro thinks and how many things work backstage when you go to the big leagues. He's such a funny, creative guy. Loved it!!