Sword Swallower Dan Meyer

Dan Sightings and Upcoming News!

Posted by dan | Filed under Science, TV Appearances, live appearances, medical, print media appearances

DAN ON HISTORY CHANNEL “SUPERHUMANS”

I just got a note on Facebook from a friend who said he just saw me on a TV commercial for the upcoming History Channel documentary “Stan Lee’s Modern Marvels SuperHumans!”

This will be a series of episodes on History Channel about people who have what are almost considered “SuperHuman” powers to do the incredible, with my friend Daniel Browning-Smith (Flex the Rubber Boy!) as host. We had a blast filming my episode on location at our farm in Alabama, and at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, TN, and there should be some VERY INTERESTING footage in our episode!

From what I’ve heard, the series will air four 8:00 episodes in each week’s 50 minute program, and according to the History Channel site, they will premiere on the History Channel starting Friday, July 30, at 9/8c. There’s a chance that my episode may air sometime in August, September or October 2010. Let me know if you see the commercials or even see the episode itself! Can’t wait to see how it turns out! Should be HOT!

DAN IN QUEST SCIENCE MAGAZINE

Just found out I am being featured in a multi-page article in QUEST magazine - Quest is a major Dutch Science magazine (won “Magazine of the Year” in 2010!), and Quest publishes over 200,000 copies each month to a readership of 1.1 million readers. The article was written by a great guy, Dutch journalist Rik Kuiper, who I hit it off with while I was speaking at the PINC.11 Conference in Zeist Netherlands in May. If you’re a Dutch reader, please let me know how the article turned out!

http://www.quest-magazine.nl/

Sad news: On the day I received my copies of the magazine in the mail, I also found out that Quest’s Editor-In-Chief died at the young age of 39. What a sad story for such a great magazine. Please keep them in your prayers.

DAN IN SCANNER MAGAZINE

I also just received a copy of the Dutch medical magazine “SCANNER” which features an article on me as well! Scanner is published by Erasmus University in Rotterdam Netherlands and reaches a large audience of medical readers.

DAN IN THE LUTHERAN MAGAZINE

Also look for an article on me in the August 2010 LUTHERAN magazine (formerly “The Lutheran Standard”) written by journalist Jeff Favre. This magazine reaches an audience of 4.7 million ELCA Lutherans and 17,000 Lutheran clergy in over 10,300 ELCA Lutheran congregations around the US! Let me know if you happen to see it or hear of any Lutheran congregations, Bible camps, or Lutheran Colleges who might be interested in having me come and speak/perform!

http://www.thelutheran.org/article/issue.cfm?issue=178

UPCOMING SHOWS

CROSS AND DAGGER
This weekend I’m heading up to Indiana to perform at “Cross and Dagger“ Biker Rally for about 2000 bikers at Life Bridge Church in Fort Wayne. If you’re in the area, definitely stop by and say hi!

http://www.crossndagger.com

OKLAHOMA YEC

Then next week I head off to Oklahoma to perform for about 10,000 Baptist youth with uber-cool magician Brock Gill and Peter Nestler on August 6-7 at the Oklahoma YEC Convention in Oklahoma City. If you’re in Oklahoma City, stop in and see us!

Hope you’re doing well and staying cool!

Stay Sharp, and Keep it REAL!

Dan

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Read more | Comments (0) | July 27th, 2010

Off to Netherlands - It’s all Dutch to me!

Posted by dan | Filed under Have Sword Will Travel, Ig Nobels, SSAI, Science, live appearances, medical

Just getting ready to catch my flight to Amsterdam in the Netherlands in a few minutes.

If the volcanic ash is not too bad, I hope to land in Amsterdam on Saturday and spend the weekend there. Then on Monday, I will be traveling to the little Dutch village of Zeist, for a VERY special occasion!

I have been honored to speak at the 11th annual prestigious PINC Conference (PINC stands for People, Ideas, Nature, and Creativity). PINC is like a European version of the well-known TED conference, and the PINC board has invited me along with a small number of other speakers to speak on “out of the box” type topics… like SWORD SWALLOWING! What a HUGE honor! I am really looking forward to this trip and to meeting the other speakers!

Here’s a link to PINC.11

It looks like they have some other interesting speakers and entrepreneurs there as well! I am looking forward to meeting all of them!

After PINC, on Wednesday I will be heading to Rotterdam where I will be speaking at Erasmus University Medical Center with my friends Erwin Kompanje and Kees Moeliker, both fellow Ig Nobel speakers themselves. This should be a fun talk for the doctors and nurses in the area, as this is one of the aspects of my job that I really LOVE!

From Wednesday to Saturday, I will be visiting the Rotterdam Natural History Museum, the Rotterdam Zoo, the Kinderdijk Windmills, and the floating Noah’s Ark replica and museum that is on exhibit in Vianen in the Netherlands! And it looks like I will be doing some media interviews in various magazines, newspapers, and even the TOP Dutch TV show in the Netherlands!

Should be a fun trip!

If you’re on Twitter, please follow me for live updates: @Halfdan

Looking forward to keeping in touch with you, and if you’re in the Netherlands, I’m looking forward to meeting you!

Tot ziens!

Dan
http://danmeyer.tel

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Read more | Comments (0) | May 14th, 2010

Sword Swallowing in Netherlands

Posted by dan | Filed under Have Sword Will Travel, Ig Nobels, Science, live appearances, medical

I’m getting ready to head over to Amsterdam, Netherlands this weekend if the volcanic ash doesn’t act up again, and then on to Zeist Netherlands to speak and perform at the 11th Annual PINC Conference next week.

PINC stands for People, Ideas, Nature, and Creativity, and is a Dutch convention with speakers made up of entrepreneurs, scientists, CEOs, and others who think creatively “outside the box”, similar to the renowned TED convention. It is a huge honor for me to be invited as one of the few featured speakers at such a prestigious conference, and I am really looking forward to it!

Here is more on PINC.11

And here’s information on some of the other speakers

From Zeist, I will head over to Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, where I will be giving a lecture for an audience of doctors, nurses, and medical faculty on our research paper “Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects” that won us the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine and was the focus of a Dutch documentary last year.

Click here to download the flyer in Dutch!

From there, my hosts have plans for me to do some media interviews, a visit to the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, some windmills, and possibly even to visit a lifesized Noah’s Ark nearby!

To get live updates from the road, follow @Halfdan on Twitter!

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Read more | Comments (0) | May 10th, 2010

Sword Swallowing in Denmark

Posted by dan | Filed under Guinness World Records, Have Sword Will Travel, Ig Nobels, Ripley's Believe It or Not, Science, live appearances, medical

I had a blast on the Ig Nobel Tour of Denmark in May, and got to perform at several universities in Copenhagen, Odense, Aarhus, and the Marine Research Center in Kerteminde, and at Ripleys and Guinness World Records in Copenhagen.

Sword Swallowing at Roskilde Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde Denmark

Sword Swallowing at the Famous Jelling Runestone, Jelling Denmark

Sword Swallowing at Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Copenhagen

Read more | Comments (0) | May 10th, 2010

Sword Swallowing in Rome Italy

Posted by dan | Filed under Guinness World Records, Have Sword Will Travel, TV Appearances, World records, live appearances

Check out these videos of Dan swallowing swords in Rome Italy in March/April!

World’s smallest man removes sword in Rome

World’s Smallest Man watches Hedge Clippers in Rome

Sword Swallowing Demonstration on Guinness World Records TV Rome

Guinness World Record Sword Swallower Lo Show Dei Record TV

Dan Punctures his throat while Swallowing Swords Underwater on Guinness World Records TV

Dan Punctures Throat Swallowing Sword Underwater on Guinness World Record TV

Shortly after filming this episode, I felt a strong pain in my throat, almost like a bad cramp that made it impossible to swallow. From the studios, they took me by ambulance to one hospital and then another in Rome, where an MRI showed that I had punctured my esophagus while swallowing the first sword (see video above to see it happen!).

I stayed in the hospital on an antibiotic IV drip for 8 days - No food, no water, just antibiotics! Finally they released me, but I needed to wait a few more days before I could fly home to make sure there was no air embolism left that had leaked into in my body cavity - If I still had an air embolism, the air would expand and double and triple in size when my flight flew home… and POP goes the Weasel! NOT a good idea!

So I stayed in Rome a few more days and got to visit the Coliseum at Rome the next day before flying home!

Swallowing a Sword at the Coliseum in Rome, Italy

Read more | Comments (0) | May 10th, 2010

Sword Swallowing in the UK

Posted by dan | Filed under Guinness World Records, Have Sword Will Travel, Ig Nobels, Science, live appearances, medical

Check out these videos of Dan swallowing swords in March on the Ig Nobel Tour of the UK and at Guinness World Records headquarters in London.

Ig Nobel Tour in Oxford England

Ig Nobel Tour in Bristol England

Ig Nobel Tour in Dundee Scotland

Ig Nobel Tour Imperial College in London England

Sword Swallower recapitulates Gorilla in Liverpool England

Dan performing at Guinness World Records Headquarters in London

Read more | Comments (0) | May 10th, 2010

Sword Swallower X-ray Fluoroscope Videos

Posted by dan | Filed under Science, TV Appearances, medical

Check out some of the new Fluoroscope videos filmed at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville!

Discovery Health Channel - Filmed at Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN Dec 2004

Moving X-ray Fluoroscopy of Sword Swallower Dan Meyer swallowing a Sword

Fluoroscopy of Sword Swallower Dan Meyer swallowing a Sword

Fluoroscopy of Sword Swallower Dan Meyer Swallowing Serpentine Sword

Fluoroscopy of Sword Swallower Dan Meyer Swallowing Surgical Forceps

Fluoroscopy of Sword Swallower Dan Meyer Swallowing Curved Sword

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Read more | Comments (0) | May 6th, 2010

Europe Tour Videos 2010

Posted by dan | Filed under Guinness World Records, Have Sword Will Travel, Ig Nobels, TV Appearances, World records, live appearances

Check out these videos from the Ig Nobel Tour of the UK and Denmark, and Guinness World Records in London and Rome!

Ig Nobel Tour in Oxford England

Ig Nobel Tour in Bristol England

Ig Nobel Tour in Dundee Scotland

Ig Nobel Tour Imperial College in London England

Sword Swallower recapitulates Gorilla in Liverpool England

World’s smallest man removes sword in Rome

World’s Smallest Man watches Hedge Clippers in Rome

Swallowing a Sword at the Coliseum in Rome, Italy

Sword Swallowing at Roskiled Viking Ship Museum, Denmark

Sword Swallowing at the Famous Jelling Runestone, Jelling Denmark

Dan performing at Guinness World Records Headquarters in London

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Read more | Comments (0) | March 29th, 2010

World Sword Swallower’s Day 2010

Posted by dan | Filed under Have Sword Will Travel, Ripley's Believe It or Not, SSAI, TV Appearances, live appearances

The 4th Annual World Sword Swallower’s Day was Saturday, February 27, 2010. As President of the Sword Swallower’s Association International, I had requested sword swallowers around the world to help us celebrate by swallowing a sword at their local Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum.

The results?

We had 22 sword swallowers from around the world (18 men and 4 women) swallow a total of 84 swords at 10 Ripley’s Believe It or Not museums worldwide - a total of over 1658.5 inches of swords or 138.21 feet of steel! Believe It or NOT!

For my part on Saturday, I got to perform at the Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum in Dallas (Grand Prairie), TX, where I swallowed the giant straight razor, the hedge clippers, and 7 swords at once! I even donated one of my favorite swords to their museum, making this the 5th Ripley’s Museum I have performed at that also has a display on me! What an honor! A special treat was to have my friend Paul Salos, the Frank Sinatra impersonator who made through to the finals in America’s Got Talent, come make an appearance, sing a few Sinatra songs, and pull a sword from my throat! Here’s a video from the
Dallas Morning News

The press we got was incredible! We made it on NPR, CBS News, CBS Morning Show, MSNBC News, and we were featured on the front page of AOL News, and on hundreds of radio stations and TV programs! Here’s a national interview I did with CBS News Correspondent Sam Litzinger

Tomorrow morning I will be swallowing a sword live on the Bob and Tom Show at 9:25am ET / 8:25am CST! If you get a chance, listen in!

Next week I’m off to the finals of a talent contest in Branson, MO and from there on to London and the Ig Nobel Tour of the UK, including Scotland, and from there, on to a major TV appearance in Rome, Italy! I’ve gotta say - I LOVE MY WORK!

Thanks for keeping in touch! Stay tuned for more over the next few weeks!

Dan

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Read more | Comments (0) | March 2nd, 2010

President Proclaims World Sword Swallower’s Day!

Posted by dan | Filed under Ripley's Believe It or Not, SSAI, TV Appearances, live appearances

100 Feet of Steel to be Swallowed at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museums Worldwide

HARTSELLE, AL – Imagine sliding a steel sword down your throat! Now imagine 25 sword swallowers swallowing over 100 feet of solid steel down their throats! That’s just one of many unbelievable sword swallowing stunts in the works for the 4th Annual World Sword Swallowers Day at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! locations worldwide on February 27, 2010!

Sword Swallowers Association International (SSAI) President Dan Meyer proclaimed the 4th annual “World Sword Swallower’s Day” for the last Saturday in February, “National Swallowing Disorders Month”, with stunts occuring throughout the month culminating with World Sword Swallower’s Day on February 27. World Sword Swallower’s Day is co-sponsored by Ripley Entertainment, who with SSAI, is inviting sword swallowers around the world to put on incredible sword swallowing demonstrations at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! locations worldwide.

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