700: Mike Caveney - Magic Words

In this milestone episode #700, world renown raconteur, Mike Caveney regales us with stories from magicians from long ago plus his many tales from the Egyptian Hall, the Left Handed League, the Long Beach Mystics, and much more. Mike is so deserving of this special episode because of his importance to the magic community not only because of his stand-up magic performances, but also because of his contributions as an author, publisher, lecturer, and collector. It was at his suggestion that David Copperfield started his journey as a collector that eventually became a museum.

As a publisher, Mike is an “open book” as he answers any and every question about his life, collecting, friends and associates as well as his performing. Some of these stories you have have heard or read here and there, but now they are all in one place: this week’s episode.

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673: Magic Collectors Expo 2022 - Day One Report

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

10:00am Expo registration

3:00pm Hotel check-in

4:00pm Buses depart to Ransom Center presentation

6:00pm Dinner and Special Performance at Esther’s Follies

Timestamps for this episode:

00:00:16 - Scott and Harriet Jacobson take to the road for a trip to Austin, Texas and the 2022 Magic Collectors Expo

00:09:11 - Organizer Bill Smith greets us as he prepares to welcome all the registrants

00:10":19 - Dr.. Eric Colleary, from the U.T. Ransom Center, chats with us following his scholarly lecture about the Houdini artifacts in the museum

00:14:36 - Lance Burton talks about this podcast and convention

00:19:03 - Mike Caveney sits next to us on the bus explaining that this will be his first time seeing Ray Anderson and Esther’s Follies

00:26:28 - John Gaughan and Pat Hazell wait with us in line for BBQ before the show begins.

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.

700: Mike Caveney - Magic Words

673: Magic Collectors Expo 2022 - Day One Report

608- Jeff Bibik - Bar Magician Extraordinaire

The Magic Word