066: Midwest Magic Jubilee Day 3 Podcast

St. Charles, Missouri (a suburb of St Louis) is the headquarters for the International Brotherhood of Magicians. This final day podcast began with a conversation with the I.B.M. office secretary, Sindie Richison, and Past International President (P.I.P.), Mike Stratman who is also the I.B.M. Convention Co-Chairman. Don Wiberg, another P.I.P. as well as serving as the International Secretary, joined us for a conversation on what's happening at the Headquarters and with the 2013 convention in Phoenix.

Losander closed the Saturday evening gala show then chatted with us at his dealer booth about his show, creating new levitation effects and how to add music to your act. And to conclude the podcast and wrap up the convention, we finished with a chat with Terry Richison.

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062: Abbott's Get Together Day 4 - 2012

Just before the final evening show, we got an inside wrap up the 75th Get-Together with owner and organizer, Greg Bordner. The information for next year's Get-Together is already posted at: http://magicgettogether.com/ Following the show and the awards presentation at the elementary school, the group continued the reverie in the village.

I caught up with Stan Allen who talked about this Get-Together, MAGIC Live! and the Essential Magic Conference. We recorded this chat with Stan outside the Legion Hall in hopes that it would be much quieter. Indeed it was; however, the wind picked up and there is some wind noise in this part of the podcast. Please forgive the poor quality of the recording of this chat, but I decided to leave it in because of the quality of the discussion. For dates, registration and more information on MAGIC Live!, visit: http://www.magicmagazine.com/live/

Before we called it a night, I talked with Al the Only and Don Wiberg who together gave a nice wrap and overview of the entire convention. Then just before we signed off, Dana Daniels came out of the Legion Hall so we got to chat with him about him winning the Senator Clark Crandall Comedy Award for Excellence, his "No Show Show" and his future. For information on booking Dana, you can find more information at: http://danadaniels.com/Dana_Daniels.html

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044: Magi-Fest 2012

From January 26-28, the "Red Coats" hosted the 81st edition of the Magi-Fest in Columbus, Ohio. The Magi-Fest is considered the "debutante ball" of the convention season marking the first major event of the magic year. This was also the first year for the new leader, Ron Spangler, to show his administrative talents after taking up the reins from Jep Hostetler who so effectively presided over the  event for so many years. Ron and his crew did an outstanding job and everything went off very well and featured some tremendous talent and special events.

Jania Taylor and Don Wiberg were both in attendance this year and chatted with Scott Wells about the events, the fun and the excitement from this year's convention.

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