Collegiate Times

Illusionist Mike Super performs a card trick at Burruss Hall.

MS: It's very funny because a lot of people see like an escape on stage and everybody kind of just sits there, and honestly nobody, not even me thinks that like, the danger is real, or that anything could really go wrong. But what's funny about that is even in things that are considered safe ... it can be more dangerous than the audience actually thinks. ... While it's pretty safe, there's always that, "How many times can you do something and then that freak thing happens?"

... I've done the risky stuff, for like publicity stunts, but it's more of a one-time thing.

CT: What's been your favorite stunt that you have pulled off?

MS: I haven't done the whole, David Blaine frozen in ice ... but I was doing a bunch of radio station action in Pittsburgh ... and they were doing this whole "Challenge Mike Super" thing. ... They had a banker bring all these bills, they selected one the bills, I had to sign it, I had to teleport it from there to their destination of their choice, but they couldn't tell me, I couldn't know where it was going to be before I did the trick, and I actually ended up teleporting it, and it freaked them out because they were trying to get me.

... And I'll call up for a morning radio show, and I'll call up and possess one of the DJs live on air and it's intriguing that they love doing it and they are always like "this is going to be stupid" and then when I do what I do, they freak out. ... I possess the DJ's body through the phone, I'm not even in the studio.

CT: You did something here where you sent ahead the headlines of the newspaper for the day.

MS: I did, and I love doing that too. ... I'll send them the prediction ... they keep it secure and I don't touch anything, there's no switches, it's not a magic trick, and yet I have no special powers, it has nothing to do with that.

CT: So you truly can predict it?

MS: No, it's not. ... It's all a physiological thing. ... it's all very real, it's all very legit, but I'm not a "see-er," I have no psychic abilities or anything like that ... but if I am wrong, I always refund the tickets to everybody who pre-bought tickets to the show. ... It's always like a little bet I do with the community.

... I've had newspapers print half a headline, that makes no sense ... but I got it, which is good. And it freaks the newspaper editors out ... and they are the ones who knows no one is in on it, so it freaks them out.

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