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799: TRICS 2023 - Days One & Two Report

Thursday, November 2nd

Kayla Drescher                7:00pm – 8:00pm
David Jonathon               9:00pm – 10:00pm

Friday, November 3rd

Blake Vogt                    11:00 – 12:00
Eric Jones                      1:00 – 2;00
Lunch                             2:00 – 3:30
Jon Armstrong              3:30 – 4:30
Insights                          5:30 – 7:00
Dinner                            7:00 – 8:30
Friday Night Show       8:30 – 9:30
Pizza Party                    10:00 Until

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Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:17 - Scott takes off on his “flying carpet” from Houston to Charlotte for the TRICS convention. He talks about some of the talent who will be at the convention.

00:05:28 - at the registration desk we chat with Tiffany Allen (the wife of Boris Wild) who talks about the registration at this convention plus what it’s like after moving to France

00:12:07 - Shawn Farquhar (the Guest of Honor at this convention) plus Billy Hsueh talk about their recent travels around the world

00:21:44 - Marv Leventhal tells us about the health status of Tom Craven

00:32:58 - Kyle Purnell and John Wolfe chat about this convention and why they attend here regularly plus we recap the lectures from the previous night

00:38:45 - Scott Robinson, main organizer of TRICS tells us that this is year number 14 and some of the special things going on

00;44:00 - Joe Daniels will be the host of the Insights event later today and talks about who will be on the panel

00:49:19 - Roy Eidem confirmed that Tom Craven had passed within the past few hours and since Marv Leventhal and Scott Wells talked about him

00:52:03 - David Coll, Chris Sharp, and Robert Sands are all first-timers to this convention and explain why they came to this event and what they are looking forward to seeing. It’s a nice perspective from the viewpoint of first-timers.

00:55:48 - Michael Kaminskas and Scott Wells give a wrap-up of most of today’s activities.

TRICS 2023 Days One and Two Report
Scott Wells with Tiffany Allen, Shawn Farquhar, Billy Hsueh, Marv Leventhal, Kyle Purnell, John Wolfe, Joe Daniels, Roy Eidem, David Coll, Chris Sharp, Robert Sands, and Michael Kamiskas
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A very hard week for the magic community. We just lost these six incredible magicians.

Graham Putnam, Dirk Arthur, David Berglas,

Dick Gustafson, Karl Fulves, Tom Craven.

I am so glad that I had some of these legends on the podcast. Aloha, my friends.

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November 3, 2023 by Scott Wells.
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