In GBA 177 we get better acquainted with Daniel. He talks magic, twitter, words, comedy and opinions and has opinions and apologies for having opinions on all of those pursuits. The conversation is a delightful dance of arrogant self-deprecation and comfortable social awkwardness with some live card tricks thrown into the mix.

Daniel plugs:

@daniel_barker: https://twitter.com/daniel_barker
Buying him beer in pubs.

I plug:

Stand Up Tragedy: Tragic Friends at the Dogstar in Brixton on Thursday 25th September from 7.30pm. Pay What You Like: https://www.facebook.com/events/571116096344062/

We mention:

Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/
Barnardos: http://www.barnardos.org.uk/
James Ross: https://twitter.com/fki01
Eddie Izzard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Izzard
Bill Bailey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bailey
Tweet typos: http://www.thewire.com/entertainment/2012/11/inside-nitpicky-minds-twitter-typo-police/59412/
Derren Brown: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derren_Brown
Houdini: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini
Spiritualists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritualism
Richard Wiseman: http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/
NLP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming
Hamleys: http://www.hamleys.com/
Mitcham: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitcham,_London
Richard Dawkins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins
https://twitter.com/richarddawkins

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