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As a fundraising effort for Children's Miracle Network at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Maryland, mentalist and illusionist Dan Cain will attempt to predict the winner of Super Bowl XLVI, the score and a highlight from the game, on Thursday, Jan. 19, at The Greene Turtle in Salisbury, Md.
On the night of the Super Bowl, Feb. 5, the prediction will be opened at the restaurant. A silent auction will be held at the event, in which all proceeds will benefit the John Hopkins Children's Center.
Before the big reveal on Super Bowl Sunday, Cain will perform at a dinner show at The Brick Hotel on the Circle in Georgetown.
Q When you’re in Georgetown, you might make a spirit table levitate?
ASome of the staple routines that I do at my shows are things like: I’ll touch someone and someone else will feel it. In this instance if enough people reserve their seats for the show, I’ll have a friend of mine in London ship a spirit table to me, and if the thing works out right, I’ll cause that spirit table to rise up above everybody’s head.
Q Have you attempted this before?
A Never. The owner of The Brick Hotel asked my agent: “Does Dan need to come here and make sure we have the right things so he can hook the cables up to, to make sure the table will float?” My agent responded to her and said, “There are no cables and there are no ropes; he’s going to make a table levitate.”
Q How are going to do achieve this?
A I can’t tell you [laughs].
Q What’s your method behind predicting this year’s Super Bowl winner? And how would your prediction differ from a gambler who’d successfully pick the winner and final score of the game?
A It’s a little easier to predict a winner based on stats. You can work with numbers to come up with a spread, but there’s no statistic that will give them the ability to predict a highlight of a game.
Q Someone could argue that a star running back who averaged 100 yards rushing per game during the regular season would likely have a highlight in the Super Bowl.
A I was thinking more specific: for instance, I’m not saying this so you could use it as one my predictions, but [I could predict] number 33 runs in for a 78-yard touchdown and flips in the endzone. It’s a very specific highlight for the game.
As a fundraising effort for Children's Miracle Network at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Maryland, mentalist and illusionist Dan Cain will attempt to predict the winner of Super Bowl XLVI, the score and a highlight from the game, on Thursday, Jan. 19, at The Greene Turtle in Salisbury, Md.
On the night of the Super Bowl, Feb. 5, the prediction will be opened at the restaurant. A silent auction will be held at the event, in which all proceeds will benefit the John Hopkins Children's Center.
Before the big reveal on Super Bowl Sunday, Cain will perform at a dinner show at The Brick Hotel on the Circle in Georgetown.
Q When you’re in Georgetown, you might make a spirit table levitate?
ASome of the staple routines that I do at my shows are things like: I’ll touch someone and someone else will feel it. In this instance if enough people reserve their seats for the show, I’ll have a friend of mine in London ship a spirit table to me, and if the thing works out right, I’ll cause that spirit table to rise up above everybody’s head.
Q Have you attempted this before?
A Never. The owner of The Brick Hotel asked my agent: “Does Dan need to come here and make sure we have the right things so he can hook the cables up to, to make sure the table will float?” My agent responded to her and said, “There are no cables and there are no ropes; he’s going to make a table levitate.”
Q How are going to do achieve this?
A I can’t tell you [laughs].
Q What’s your method behind predicting this year’s Super Bowl winner? And how would your prediction differ from a gambler who’d successfully pick the winner and final score of the game?
A It’s a little easier to predict a winner based on stats. You can work with numbers to come up with a spread, but there’s no statistic that will give them the ability to predict a highlight of a game.
Q Someone could argue that a star running back who averaged 100 yards rushing per game during the regular season would likely have a highlight in the Super Bowl.
A I was thinking more specific: for instance, I’m not saying this so you could use it as one my predictions, but [I could predict] number 33 runs in for a 78-yard touchdown and flips in the endzone. It’s a very specific highlight for the game.
Q From your experience, explain how mentalism works.
A I’m an individual who has the ability to, I guess, identify and manipulate one or more elements of the human psyche. I have focused my efforts in the areas of what people call ESP (extra sensory perception), thought reading, psycho kinesis, and the power of suggestion.
Q Can anyone acquire ESP?
A I believe that everyone has that ability. You have to learn how to sharpen it, just like you can sharpen your memory.
Q What are some ways you’ve enhanced your skills?
A Be very observant. You have to have a lot of life experience in order to identify certain things about certain people. As far as what I do to prepare, I meditate. I think what I explained to one of the reporters recently is I get images, and I write those images down.
Q Have you ever been wrong with a prediction?
A I estimate that I’m over 90 percent right in my present shows.
Q Explain why you’ve been wrong 10 percent of the time?
A For instance, someone will pick an object in a room and I’ll pick an object next to the one they picked, or someone writes down a number and I’ll be two numbers off.
Q What will you do if your prediction is wrong?
A I’ll never perform again.
Q On the flipside, what happens if your prediction is right?
A The future is open to so many possibilities; who knows who would want to talk to me after that.
