341: Houdini-Opoly with Dick Brookz and Dorothy Dietrich

Dorothy Dietrich and Dick Brookz own and operate the Houdini Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania. They have both led extraordinary lives and worthy of talking more about their Houdini museum, the Houdini seance, and the former Magic Townhouse in New York City. They talk about all these things but the purpose of this particular podcast is to help the magic world learn more about their newest project, "Houdini-Opoly"

They have been working on this board game for over two years and with the Kickstarter campaign now being fully funded just before this podcast was released. So not it's on to meet their "stretch" goals to pay for the "enhancements". Thanks to your support, it appears that it will be in production soon this year. The Magic Word Podcast is selective in providing a platform for promoting individuals or pet projects. But this is one I support and think is of particular interest to our community. But even if you choose not to support the cause and buy a game, the rest of our chat is interesting as we talk about the old Magic Townhouse in New York City and why it closed and the museum moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania. We also discuss the Houdini seance and the museum.

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233: FISM Italy - Day Two

More great competitors made for some outstanding shows. And some really. Great lectures, too. By Luke Jermay, David Stone, Paul Wilson, Dani Da Ortiz, Luis De Matos, Rob Zabrcky and many others. And the competitions (both close-up and stage) run opposite and in conjunction with the lectures.

the evening show was the "Magic Mentors" featuring Xavier Mortimer, Dan Sperry, Gaetan Bloom, , Juliana Chen, Simon Pierro, Marco Zoppi, Armando Lucero, Raymond Crowe, James More, and as MC, Topas who introduced the following presenters, Max Maven, Lu Chin, Luis de Matos, Marco Tempest, Rafael, Mike Caveney, Tina Lennert, Guy Hollingworth,

And the dealers...oh, the dealers! Such great stuff from all over the world. I have finally started "dipping into the pond" and buying a few things. And the activities go late into the, uh, morning. On this second day, the late night (12:30) show was "he great Jabba extreme freak show"

Time stamps for this podcast:

00:49:39 - Paul Stone talks about Innovention an dmore

00:13:04 - Sandy Marshall, son of Jay Marshall and owner of Magic, Inc. in Chicago, Illinois

00:24:21 - Mark Mason, owner of JP Magic

00:28:59 - Danny Orleans talks about his lecture here at FISM plus some tips on trade show business

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109: MAGIC Live! 2013 - Day 4

Every day and every show and nearly every session was great this year with lots of surprises and spectacles. This final day brought more of the same. And the big surprise for the end of the evening was the last performance of The Great Tomsoni and Company. It was as much of a surprise to us as it was for Johnny as he was joined on stage by good friends Lance Burton and Penn & Teller.

Time stamps for this podcast:

00:00:08 - Noel Britten, from Bath, England, talks about the importance of giving back and the rich rewards magicians are given in the form of love when working at charity events and hospitals.

00:18:15 - S.A.M. International President, Dal Sanders, and the First Lady, Sindie Sanders, talk about conventions and the evolution of how the S.A.M. is keeping up with keeping their conventions new.

00:28:56 - Paul Stone talks about his plans for the Innovention convention in 2015 in Liverpool

00:33:12 - Steve Chezaday talks about the recent Abbott's Get Together. Steve was one of the featured performers of this years Get Together.

00:37:02 - Mark Korhouser gives us an update on his "First Trick" video project.

00:40:52 - Doug Anderson, cruise ship magician, talks about this being his first MAGIC Live! convention and relates his experience with this event.

00:43:43 - Auke Van Dauken, creator of metal products (cups, coins and more), talks about some of his exciting new products especially some created from Tommy Wonder's ideas.

00:49:41 - Doc Eason is another first time registrant at MAGIC Live! and he gives his observations on this event.

00:55:06 - Stan Allen thanks everyone for coming as he introduces Johnny and Pam Thompson presenting his last performance as The Great Tomsoni and Company.

00:57:36 - Lance Burton is the first voice you hear then Penn followed by Teller.

01:04:46 - Stan Allen gives us his quick perspective on this convention now that it is over.

01:08:37 - Milt Larsen, the Godfather of the Magic Castle, talked about the 50 years of the Academy of Magical Arts.

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