830: Obie's 4F 2024 Close-Up Convention - Day Four Report

Saturday April 27, 2024

10:30 a.m. One-Man Show: Paul Gertner

1:30 p.m. 6th Show Mini World (Shawn Farqhar)

3:30 p.m. ED Talks (MCs: Chrisitan and Katalina)

5:30 p.m. Banquet (ticket required)

8:00 p.m. 7th Show Closing Gala (MC: Steve Beam)

Time Stamps for this episode:

(00:00) This is themagicwordpodcast. com. So everybody listened to the past episodes with Scott and Marc DeSouza

(01:43) This year, unusual, we actually had three guests of honor

(02:42) Michael Breggar: Christian was the first guest of honor on opening night

(07:30) We had a whole episode about Breaking Bad. You should go back and find that episode

(09:09) Scott: Bernardo Sedlacek gave a lecture about the experience of magic

(12:47) Our food has arrived. We are back. I had the pancakes and also the biscuits and gravy

(13:17) Breakfast at the campfire grill was delicious, much better than hotel

(13:50) Michael Bregger is offering us a free drawing on his website

(17:19) Thursday night show featured some outstanding magicians

(21:30) Steve Friedberg: Thursday night featured some great card tricks. And Boris Wild closed the show

(25:57) Friday frolics afternoon show was hosted by Mayor Yedid

(31:03) All the performers in the show were all performers who learned magic from Charming Choi

(36:59) Michael Vena taking over as contest chairman for next year's MAES

(40:10) Scott Savage welcomes Tiffany Wild to the show

(40:26) Has Boris thought about doing a one man show here

(43:03) You've been involved in magic for a long time, but the Georgia magnet is recent

(45:37) Do you think eventually you'll have dual citizenship in France

(46:46) This is your first time performing the Georgia wonder act

(51:07) You can use lipstick to write down something holding someone back

(51:32) You talk about men and women in your act. Talk about history

(52:59) Scott Wells: The TRICS convention is in Charlotte, South Carolina, I mean North Carolina

(54:51) Shawn Farquhar's show was fantastic, so many surprises

(55:43) Paul Gertner will perform at TRICS this year as guest of honor

(58:08) Are you not sold out yet this year for the sleight club convention

(01:00:28) The shows throughout this whole weekend have been really great. Have so much good stuff going on

(01:03:49) Scott Robinson: We had a great afternoon with Paul and Ed

(01:05:20) Charming Choi is your real name. Do you go on television as charming Choi

(01:09:30) You must have really enjoyed this, the fact that you put this whole show together

(01:11:42) Scotty and DeSouza wrap up 51st annual 4F convention

(01:16:18) Sean Farquhar has a great cup and ball routine

(01:18:06) Steve Friedberg talks about creating character through ad libbing

(01:21:44) Bernardo did three great routines last night

(01:26:55) Marc DeSouza and Scotty out until next year at the Millennium Hotel

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You show a deck of cards, and then set a prediction face down on the table, before the trick starts. Next you bring out four different dice, each with a different number of sides (D4, D6, D8 and D10). The spectator rolls the whole lot of dice, generating four random numbers, and then they choose one of them to place on top of the prediction card.
The same procedure is repeated three more times - each time the spectator rolling the dice, generating random numbers, and then consciously choosing one to place onto a face down prediction card, placed down before the dice were rolled.
The cards are carefully removed from underneath the cards, and flipped over...
**ASTONISHINGLY, EACH CARD HAS THE SAME VALUE AS THE DICE THE SPECTATOR CHOSE TO PLACE ONTO IT!**
Easy to do, includes the dice, bag and special 'something'. Just provide your own deck of bicycles. You also receive video instructions with Liam's teaching, variations and bonus handlings!

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.

608- Jeff Bibik - Bar Magician Extraordinaire

Jeff Bibik is a Chicago comedian and a magician. Originally from the Detroit, Michigan, area, he regularly performed magic in local restaurants and comedy clubs until 1985 when he moved to Chicago where he continued as a comedy magician in close-up and stage for the public and corporate audiences and he also performs a hypnosis act. Over the years he developed a large repertoire of jokes and gags that serves him well today as the house magician at the Chicago Magic Lounge.

Jeff Bibik pulls no punches this week in sharing the secrets behind getting work in restaurants performing magic, plus he tells lots of stories about working in bars and restaurants with a liberal sprinkling of funny gags, jokes and puns. This was recorded using StreamYard with Jeff joining us from the bar in his basement in his Chicago home. A video of our chat was also recorded and posted to YouTube. To view that video, please click on the video link below in this blog.