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830: Obie's 4F 2024 Close-Up Convention - Day Four Report

Saturday April 27, 2024

10:30 a.m.         One-Man Show: Paul Gertner

1:30 p.m.            6th Show             Mini World (Shawn Farqhar)

3:30 p.m.            ED Talks (MCs: Chrisitan and Katalina)

5:30 p.m.            Banquet (ticket required)

8:00 p.m.            7th Show             Closing Gala (MC: Steve Beam)

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Time Stamps for this episode:

(00:00) This is themagicwordpodcast. com. So everybody listened to the past episodes with Scott and Marc DeSouza

(01:43) This year, unusual, we actually had three guests of honor

(02:42) Michael Breggar: Christian was the first guest of honor on opening night

(07:30) We had a whole episode about Breaking Bad. You should go back and find that episode

(09:09) Scott: Bernardo Sedlacek gave a lecture about the experience of magic

(12:47) Our food has arrived. We are back. I had the pancakes and also the biscuits and gravy

(13:17) Breakfast at the campfire grill was delicious, much better than hotel

(13:50) Michael Bregger is offering us a free drawing on his website

(17:19) Thursday night show featured some outstanding magicians

(21:30) Steve Friedberg: Thursday night featured some great card tricks. And Boris Wild closed the show

(25:57) Friday frolics afternoon show was hosted by Mayor Yedid

(31:03) All the performers in the show were all performers who learned magic from Charming Choi

(36:59) Michael Vena taking over as contest chairman for next year's MAES

(40:10) Scott Savage welcomes Tiffany Wild to the show

(40:26) Has Boris thought about doing a one man show here

(43:03) You've been involved in magic for a long time, but the Georgia magnet is recent

(45:37) Do you think eventually you'll have dual citizenship in France

(46:46) This is your first time performing the Georgia wonder act

(51:07) You can use lipstick to write down something holding someone back

(51:32) You talk about men and women in your act. Talk about history

(52:59) Scott Wells: The TRICS convention is in Charlotte, South Carolina, I mean North Carolina

(54:51) Shawn Farquhar's show was fantastic, so many surprises

(55:43) Paul Gertner will perform at TRICS this year as guest of honor

(58:08) Are you not sold out yet this year for the sleight club convention

(01:00:28) The shows throughout this whole weekend have been really great. Have so much good stuff going on

(01:03:49) Scott Robinson: We had a great afternoon with Paul and Ed

(01:05:20) Charming Choi is your real name. Do you go on television as charming Choi

(01:09:30) You must have really enjoyed this, the fact that you put this whole show together

(01:11:42) Scotty and DeSouza wrap up 51st annual 4F convention

(01:16:18) Sean Farquhar has a great cup and ball routine

(01:18:06) Steve Friedberg talks about creating character through ad libbing

(01:21:44) Bernardo did three great routines last night

(01:26:55) Marc DeSouza and Scotty out until next year at the Millennium Hotel

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You show a deck of cards, and then set a prediction face down on the table, before the trick starts.  Next you bring out four different dice, each with a different number of sides (D4, D6, D8 and D10).  The spectator rolls the whole lot of dice, generating four random numbers, and then they choose one of them to place on top of the prediction card.

The same procedure is repeated three more times - each time the spectator rolling the dice, generating random numbers, and then consciously choosing one to place onto a face down prediction card, placed down before the dice were rolled.

The cards are carefully removed from underneath the cards, and flipped over...

ASTONISHINGLY, EACH CARD HAS THE SAME VALUE AS THE DICE THE SPECTATOR CHOSE TO PLACE ONTO IT!

Easy to do, includes the dice, bag and special 'something'.  Just provide your own deck of bicycles.  You also receive video instructions with Liam's teaching, variations and bonus handlings!

Enter the Contest for a chance to win Psi-Roller by Michael Breggar

There will be TWO WINNERS for this prize. You must be a resident of the U.S. to be considered for this contest; however, if you do enter the contest and your name is randomly selected, and you reside outside the U.S., then you will have to reimburse Michael Breggar for the additional postage.

One entry per person, please.

Thank you for entering the contest. If your name is randomly selected, then you will be contacted and asked for your physical mailing address for your where you want your prize sent. Good luck!

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April 27, 2024 by Scott Wells.
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622: Michael Chaut - Monday Night Magician

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Michael Chaut is one of the co-producers of Monday Night Magic in New York City. After 25 years, it is the longest running magic show in NYC. In this week’s episode, Michael shares the history of Monday Night Magic along with a brief history of some of the other magic venues and performers during the 20th century in NYC.

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Tagged with Michael Chaut, Monday Night Magic, New York City, Imam, The Magic Townhouse, Dorothy Dietrich, Dick Brookz.

July 22, 2021 by Scott Wells.
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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.

Help the Kickstarter Campaign and get your "one of a kind" collectible Houdini board game. You can't escape the fun!

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The contest is over and we congratulate Pat Darienzo who won a copy of Danny Archer's eBook.

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January 26, 2017 by Scott Wells.
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