925: MAGIC Live! 2025 - Day Four Report

Time Stamps for this episode:

00:00:14 – Kelvin Chun and Ron Ishimaro, from Hawaii, regularly attend MAGIC Live! and tell us why they enjoy this event.

00:06:30 – Master Payne has been a presenter at many MAGIC Live! events and regularly performs at the Moisture Festival (Renaissance Festival) in the northwest. He tells us what he enjoyed most about this year’s event.

00:19:22 – Bill Smith, from Magic Ventures, was the builder of the sets for the close-up and E.T.C. show and has always been intimately involved with MAGIC Live! He also tells us about his favorite magic convention, Abbott’s Get Together and why he always attends.

00:26:50 – as the evening show is about to begin, we chat with Charlie Randall, from H&R Magic Books, and Bill Flanagan, who tells us about their perception of this convention and some of the break-out shows.

00:40:09 – We wrap up the convention with Stan Allen, organizer of MAGIC Live! who tells us some the challenges and victories and surprises that made this event unique.

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767: Randy Wakeman - I've Been Around for a Long, Long Years

Randy Wakeman has been around for many decades and was often seen lecturing and performing at magic conventions. Nonetheless, I have always seen him as an “underground” magician who appeals to the true sleight-of-hand experts. He is one of those guys who has “been there, done that, has the t-shirt” as he was one of the regular performers about the Chicago Bar Magic Scene before the turn of the last century. He has written several books on magic (card magic mostly) and is still relevant in our community as a performer, teacher and author.

While at the recent Senior Tour close-up convention in St. Louis, The Magic Word spoke with Randy as part of the convention report content. He was preparing for a workshop, so we didn’t get a chance to go in-depth as I had wanted. But we agreed to get together at the 4F convention in Buffalo a couple months later. True to his word, we sat down to complete our chat which results in this episode. The content of our chat in both places was a little disjunctive, so the editing required us to put the second conversation first then plug in the chat in St. Louis and finish with our talk while in Buffalo. This sounds more confusing that it actually is, but I know you will understand and enjoy our chat.

698: FISM Quebec 2022 - Day Three Report

Wednesday July 27th 2022

8:15-11:00 - Stage Contest
12:30 - 14:30: Close-up Contest

8:30 - 9:30: Jared Kopf

10:30- 11:30: Mario Lope

8:00 - 9:00: Greg Frewin

10:00 - 11:00: Zabrecky

12:00 - 13:00: Julie Eng

14:30 - 15:30: Alain Choquette

16:30 - 17:30: Mike Caveney Visit of David Copperfield Museum

19:00 - 20:00: Max Maven presents Magic Christian - Latest research on Hofzinser

19:00 - 20:00: Jim Steinmeyer

19:00 - 20:00: Zabrecky

18::30 - 19:30: Greg Frewin

22::30 - 23:30: Luis De Matos Intimate Conversation with Topas

23:00 - 0:00: Dani DaOrtiz

23:30 - 0:30: Jeki Yoo

22:00 - 1:00: Workshop / Bernardo Sedlacek

Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:17 - Walking from the hotel to the convention center while visiting with Past International President of the I.B.M., Alex Zander, who is a Canadian resident and expresses his excitement about this being his first FISM plus holding it in his home country.

00:04:12 - Master Payne is at the convention center and looking forward to the coming activities but was disappointed with the small dealers’ room. He will be performing later today at Jeff McBride’s Magic and Mystery school here at FISM. He also gives us a few of his highlights of FISM so far.

00:08:22 - Mark DeSouza and Scott Wells recaps the previous day’s activities.

00:39:15 - Chris Stoltz tells about how excited he is attending this, his first FISM, and a little bit about the next FISM location and a possible hosting city for 2028.