503: Day Three - 2019 I.B.M. Convention

2019 Convention Schedule - Scottsdale, Arizona

Friday July 12th 2019

9 a.m.-10 a.m. - Close-up Contestant Meeting

9 a.m. - NOON Registration Open

9 a.m. - 5 p.m. I.B.M. Magic Shops Open

9:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. Lecture/show Jon Armstrong

10 a.m. Spouse Event - Meet at Registration Ballroom Lobby

11 a.m.- 12 p.m. I.B.M. Board Meeting

11 a.m.- 12 p.m. Lance Burton Teen Scene #2

1 p.m.- 5 p.m. Registration Open

1 p.m.-3 p.m. Close-up Contest

3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Lecture Bizzaro

4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Doug Henning Exhibit

5 p.m. Cocktails

5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Grand I.B.M. Banquet

6:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. Grand Banquet Show Banachek & Shawn Farquhar

8 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. The Fantastic Gold Medal Show. M.C. Robert Baxt with Jessica Jane Peterson, and David DaVinci

10:15 p.m.-11:30 p.m. Late night evening with Banachek

11:30 p.m. Invisible Lodge Meeting

Time Stamps for this podcast:

00:00:17 - Larry Wright and Mel Kientz talk about last night’s show

00:15:22 - Rocco Solano and Franz Harary and Perry Maynard talk about MagicFlix which is a new video platform for learning magic. You can get a free one month trial by using the code “Rocco”

00:32:23 - Paul Stone

00:42:43 - Joey Martinez, General Manager and Talent Director of Nashville’s “House of Cards”

00:48:18 - Peter Rodgers from Australia

00:52:46 - John Armstrong gives a recap of his lecture

00:59:22 - Charles Chaput - this is his first I.B.M.. convention along with Steve Bargatze

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266: Wizard Wars Woman - Billy Kidd

Billy Kidd is a force to be reckoned with. She is a street magician (with a straight jacket escape as her signature trick), but she is best known to the general magic community as one of the Wizards on the SyFy television series "Wizard Wars" (produced by Rick Lax) in the second season. Born in Canada, she now resides in Bath Spa, England with Gazzo. So now you see her connection with street magic.

She actually came into magic later in life than most male magicians who generally get interested in their adolescent years. Billy was 21 when she first saw and was influenced by a stage magician. As a drama major in college, she was already involved with and had a passion for theatre. But she saw the potential of being her own person as a street performer and creating her own stage wherever she was. She met Gazzo who took her under his wing and mentored her in the ways of the street and, well...the dominoes fell.

Street Magician, NIck Nickolas, was the inspiration for Billy Kidd. You can get a sense of his style in this video. You can learn more about Nick at www.nicknickolas.com

Billy traveled with Gazzo on his recent lecture tour of the U.S. and stopped by as my house guest. I talked with Gazzo on a podcast with the intent of bringing over Billy to chat, too; however, Gazzo had so much to talk about that it filled the hour. I felt that Billy would have enough to fill another hour talking about her experiences as a female magician in our male dominated art and the challenges for a woman magician on the street.

I was not wrong.

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264: Street Talk from Gazzo

With literally tens of thousands of performances over his lifetime, Gazzo is one of the world's best street performers. Don't just take my word for it. On multiple occasions he has taken top honors at street festivals as the "best" street performer. Gazzo resides in Bath Spa, England, but as a globe-trotter, he is really a citizen of the world.

During a recent nationwide lecture tour across the U.S., Gazzo stopped by Houston and visited my home to record a chat. Gazzo talked about his philosophy of life, working the streets around the world, differences (or lack of differences) in appreciating verbal humor among other cultures and non-English speaking audiences, and much more.

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