855: Magic Texas - Day Two Report

Saturday August 31st, 2024

Subject to change

8:30 AM – 6:30 PM Registration Open
9:00 AM -1:00 PM Youth Academy
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Dealers Room Open
9:00 - 11:00 AM Close-up Contest
10:00 - 11:00 AM SESSION #4: Choice between; Paul Draper – Marketing Jeff Copeland – Coins
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM Lecture - Artem Shchukin
12:45 – 1:45 PM Lecture – Shawn Farquhar
2:00 - 3:00 PM Stars of Tomorrow Stage Show
3:00 – 6:00 PM Youth Academy
3:30 - 4:30 PM Franz Harary Interviews Gay Blackstone
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Lecture – Adrian Vega
6:00 PM BUS OR SELF DRIVE TO UT ARLINGTON Texas Hall Theater
6:00 – 7:30 PM
RED & WHITE Party with Strolling Magic at UTA Texas Hall Theater
(Food for Purchase)
8:00 - 9:30 PM International GALA Stage Show – Texas Hall on the UTA Campus Starring Greg Frewin, Yu Komohara, Shimpei. Syouma, Wessy, Adrien Kill and Emcee, BJ Mallin
10:00 - 11:30 PM FILM: Lost In The Shuffle – Houdini Theater at the Loews Ballroom
10:00 – 10:30 PM Mind2Mind Mentalism Session #4 (30 Person Limit – Must be pre-registered)
10:45 – 11:15 PM Mind2Mind Mentalism Session #5 (30 Person Limit – Must be pre-registered)
11:30 PM - ??? Midnight Madness – Open Mic, hosted by Fabian Moreno

Time stamps for this episode: updates will be posted after I get some sleep

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835: Mark Jensen - Marshalling a Collection

Mark Jensen is not a name you may (yet) be familiar with, but his story of collecting is one among hundreds, if not thousands, of those of us who have found a niche where we can enjoy the history of our art by just looking at our walls or across the room to see the collectible relic. His story represents those collectors who have a passion for a particular area of our vast art. His friendship with the late Marshall Brodien led to him ultimately being the “caretaker” of Marshall’s magic collection. There are others who are notable magic collectors who gather magic from our rich history (like Chip Romero who specializes in collecting all things related to Doug Henning) plus other ephemera and props from some of the magic celebrities of yesteryear.

Mark Jensen lived in the Chicago, Illinois, area and grew up watching the Bozo Show on television that featured Wizzo the Wizard (Marshall Brodien). Later Mark found that he lived rather close to Marshall and developed a friendship with the late wizard. In this week’s episode, Mark talks about that friendship and some of the stories that Marshall shared with him. Mark also talks about some of the other things in his collection (like items from “The Great Buck Howard” movie) and his passion for science fiction plus suggestions on how others might begin their own collecting.

Links for this week’s podcast:

Academy of Magical Arts - The Magic Castle https://www.magiccastle.com/

Simon Helberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Helberg

Ed Alonzo https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0022303/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_0_nm_8_q_ed%2520alonzo

Jason Siegel https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0781981/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_4_tt_0_nm_8_q_jason%2520siegel

Larry Wilmore https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932831/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_5_nm_3_q_larry%2520willmore

Todd Robbins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Robbins

Bozo Show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bozo_the_Clown

Marshall Brodien https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Brodien

The Academy of Magical Arts - The Magic Castle https://www.magiccastle.com/

Texas Association of Magicians https://taom.org/

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.

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