630: 2021 Magic Collector Expo - Day One & Two

Thursday August 19, 2021

10:00am - 4:00pm Registration Open

1:00pm – 4:00p Dealer Room Open

4:00pm – 5:00p Welcome To Vegas hosted with Paul Stone and Mike Caveney

7:00pm – 9:00pm Expo Session #1 hosted by Bill Smith with David Charvet (on Alexander) and Charles Greene III (on Ionia) and David Sandy and Lance Rich performing a trick by Andre Kole

9:00pm – Midnight Dealers Open

Friday August 20, 2021

9:00am - Tour 1 Leaves David Copperfield Museum

9:25am- Tour 2 Leaves David Copperfield Museum

9:50am Tour 3 Leaves David Copperfield Museum

10:15am Tour 4 Leaves David Copperfield Museum

10:40am Tour 5 Leaves David Copperfield Museum

11:05am Tour 6 Leaves David Copperfield Museum

11:15am – 4:00pm Dealer Room Open

11:15am – 4:00pm The Magicana

Screening Room

11:30am Tour 7 Leaves David Copperfield Museum

11:55pm Tour 8 Leaves David Copperfield Museum

12:20pm Tour 9 Leaves David Copperfield Museum

12:45am Tour 10 Leaves David Copperfield Museum

1:10pm Tour 11 Leaves David Copperfield Museum

1:35pm Tour 12 Leaves David Copperfield Museum

3:35pm - Last Tour Returns David Copperfield Museum

7:00pm – 8:45pm Expo Session #2

9:00pm – 10:30pm Blackstone

10:30pm – Midnight Dealer Room Open

Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:17 - Scott Wells at the airport and ready with Dunkin’ Donuts to go to Las Vegas

00:02:57 - Paul Stone will be the first speaker this evening who will talk about the career of the Las Vegas icons, Siegfried and Roy

00:11:38 - Chip Romero happened upon a unique find: Doug Henning’s diary when he was traveling to the Magic Castle to meet Dai Vernon

00:15:28 - Blair Robertson talks about Walter Blaney’s new Vanishing Birdcage

00:23:05 - Paul Kieve talks about some history of the Sawing illusion plus Robert Harbin info and stories plus Richard Hatch talks about his experience of visiting the Copperfield museum

00:41:29 - Terry Magelssen tells us his thoughts about being on the tour of the Copperfield museum

00:47:41 - David “Silly Billy” Kaye talks about the history of children’s magic in the world

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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.

567: David Kaye - The Method Behind His Silliness

In response to listeners’ requests for more content and conversations with children and family show entertainer, this week we go to the “top” and visit with David “Silly Billy” Kaye who is regarded by many as one of the best known kid show entertainers in the world today.

Before the Magic Word Podcast became a reality, I was part of a podcast produced by Dodd Vickers called “Magic Newswire”. For quite some time on Sunday evenings, Dodd put together a small band of us, each with specific backgrounds and skill sets, to talk with some of the biggest names in magic (like Johnny Thompson, Mac King, Jamy Ian Swiss, and others). One of the other “co-hosts” with me was David Kaye. Though we had known each other from our times together at various magic conventions, we got to know each other better through our Sunday evening gatherings online from our respective homes before that was a “thing”.

This is a performance of the magic trick called Princess In A Pickle, created by Silly Billy. It was shot at the Magic Castle in Hollywood. A great routine for your show. Packs really flat and plays big and funny for 7 minutes. Buy Princess in a Pickle at https://www.sillymagic.com/product/pr... Silly Billy performs children’s magic for kids in New York.

David gives us a mini-lecture on the differences in “appreciation” of magic for children of different ages. This is a wonderful, insightful and educational episode for anyone interested in performing for children, regardless if you are just getting started or if you have been entertaining children for years.

630: 2021 Magic Collector Expo - Day One & Two

608- Jeff Bibik - Bar Magician Extraordinaire

567: David Kaye - The Method Behind His Silliness

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