This past Friday my show was heckled for only the second time since I have been doing these shows. When I mean heckled, I mean that there was a concerted effort to simply trash the show.
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It did seem that my hypnosis show was where the crashing took place.
Still, I pulled off my show technically fine, but it simply wasn’t the best show that I have ever done, as a result.
The difference in a show like mine and one of a stand-up comedian’s, for example, is that the comedian is used to dealing with hecklers and it’s almost a standard part of their shows. It seems as if there is always some idiot trying to out-funny the comedian who usually is prepared with a bunch of one-line insults to deal with such idiocy.
However, when I start the induction process and am hypnotizing people the things that people will shout out from an audience will wake up the volunteers. It’s why any of us who do this say exactly that to our crowds, “you don’t have to be pin-drop quiet, just know that loud noises might wake people up early on in the show.”
So there were about five idiots near the front who decided that they wanted to be the main attraction. They ended up succeeding in waking up about half of the people on stage during the course of the show. All of the adults were up in the back of the auditorium. It would have probably been more disruptive had I stopped everything and tried to get people to come down to put a halt to it. But I actually still had a great bunch of volunteers left on stage, so ultimately, I won because the show kept going despite these little turds best efforts.
Had I decided to address the hecklers a little more directly than with evil stares, I would have said, “Oh, I see that you have already been hypnotized…to be ASSHOLES!”
But, I’ll save that for another time and place where I would rather not go again. Who knows, if it happens there again next year, it might happen then.
I was at an after prom in
It did seem that my hypnosis show was where the crashing took place.
Still, I pulled off my show technically fine, but it simply wasn’t the best show that I have ever done, as a result.
The difference in a show like mine and one of a stand-up comedian’s, for example, is that the comedian is used to dealing with hecklers and it’s almost a standard part of their shows. It seems as if there is always some idiot trying to out-funny the comedian who usually is prepared with a bunch of one-line insults to deal with such idiocy.
However, when I start the induction process and am hypnotizing people the things that people will shout out from an audience will wake up the volunteers. It’s why any of us who do this say exactly that to our crowds, “you don’t have to be pin-drop quiet, just know that loud noises might wake people up early on in the show.”
So there were about five idiots near the front who decided that they wanted to be the main attraction. They ended up succeeding in waking up about half of the people on stage during the course of the show. All of the adults were up in the back of the auditorium. It would have probably been more disruptive had I stopped everything and tried to get people to come down to put a halt to it. But I actually still had a great bunch of volunteers left on stage, so ultimately, I won because the show kept going despite these little turds best efforts.
Had I decided to address the hecklers a little more directly than with evil stares, I would have said, “Oh, I see that you have already been hypnotized…to be ASSHOLES!”
But, I’ll save that for another time and place where I would rather not go again. Who knows, if it happens there again next year, it might happen then.
The MLB season is now over a 1/3rd of the way complete. The Phillies, with a 3-game lead over the Marlins in the NL East, have the greatest lead of any of the 6 division leaders. So, and even still in that division, many teams are still capable of taking a division title.
With Albert Pujols breaking out of a “slump” recently, the Cardinals could look to increase their slim lead in the NL Central. Pujols had two consecutive extra-inning, game-winning homeruns this weekend. That was a feat not done since Albert Belle did so in the 90’s.
But for Pujols, this year has been very disappointing thus far. He is hitting just .278 (which would still mean a multi-million dollar deal for most players) and has hit into a major-league leading 16 double plays. What is more telling about his year is that he is not on the NL league leader list in intentional walks. His teammate Lance Berkman, who is having a regular Pujols-type year, leads the league in that category with 7.
Everyone knows that my favorite team is the Mets and they also know that the Mets are having serious financial troubles because of the owner’s dealings with Bernie Madoff, who ripped them off for millions of dollars.
As a result there is trade talk regarding the Met’s shortstop, Jose Reyes who is in his contract year and is currently the MVP of the league. Reyes will be 28 years old this week and his healthy and back to being the menace that he has been whenever he has been healthy.
But there are fans of this team who believe he should actually be traded. Every now and then he’ll make an error or get tagged out trying to reach an extra base and some of my fellow fans will go ballistic.
This makes no sense to me whatsoever. You don’t trade a player like this in his prime. The Mets have done this twice in their existence with horrible results. They traded Nolan Ryan for Jim Fregosi in the early 70’s (ok, Ryan wasn’t yet in his prime, but Jim Fregosi?) and of course, Tom Seaver. To deal Reyes would be similar to this.
The argument is that Reyes will command probably 17 million dollars a year and want a 7-year deal and the money could be better spent. This argument actually took place after Reyes did make an error on a routine ground ball that allowed a tying run to score against them in a Braves win this past weekend. But as the “sports expert” on WFAN was chastising him for that, he forgot to mention that Reyes SAVED a run in the first inning with a diving stop on a groundball, and also forgot to mention that the Mets “closer” gave up three runs in the 9th inning of that game.
A caller to this “experts” show was talking about the Mets Carlos Beltran and how Beltran struck out in game 7 of the 2007 NLCS looking at a called third strike. The expert told this guy to remember all the good things and clutch performances from Beltran and to “get over” that play.
Seems as if he should have taken his own advice and remembered the great play Reyes made earlier in that game he was talking about right at that moment.
Reyes is the life-blood of the Mets team, make no mistake about it. There are other players they can get rid of to save the team money even if they can’t get rid of Bobby Bonilla’s contract for the next 25 years, a guy who hasn’t played with the team for 10 years.
Ironically, as tough as the Mets have it right now, if post-season awards were to go out they would have contenders for three of them with Reyes getting MVP votes, Beltran getting Comeback Player of the Year award and 3B Justin Turner getting Rookie of the Year award votes.
Done
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