858: Magic at the Beach - Day One Report

Thursday, September 12th

2:00 pm - Registration Opens, Wonders Theatre Box Office

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Dealers Sneak Preview Show (ten minutes per dealer)

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm - Lecture: Dave Risley - Children's Entertainment

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm - DINNER Served By Magic At The Beach at Wonders Theatre

7:00 pm - Wonders Theatre House Opens

7:30 pm - 8:30 pm - Masters of Sleight of Hand show - Jafo, Karl Hein, James Brandon, Chris Blackmore, Paul Stone (Host)

10:00 pm - 11:30 pm - After Hours in Houdini Lounge in balcony

Time stamps for this episode: updates will be posted after I get some sleep

00:00:18 –

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International Podcast Day 2015

September 30th is International Podcast Day (IPD) and The Magic Word is helping by posting this special podcast featuring some of the Friends of The Magic Word. The purpose of IPD is to create more awareness of podcasts and encourage more people to listen to podcasts. There are over 100,000 English speaking podcasts available today covering about any interest you can imagine...and some you cannot imagine.

There are less than a dozen magic-related podcasts and we all have our own personalities, niche and audience. The Magic Word Podcast focuses on casualness and curiosity. There is no particular agenda in our conversations. They are more like the conversations you would have with your friends, but they are always informative and cover some aspect of magic, performing and creativity. They also let you go "deeper" into subjects and let you get to know the guest on a more personal level allowing you to often find out things that you never knew about them. Sometimes the conversations go "off the rail" in a direction never envisioned. And that's when they become really interesting.

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Grab your mic and camera and ask someone, really anyone, about their favorite podcast and share the response on social media using #podcastday
Join in with the numerous events going on.
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#200 - How The Grinch Stole Christmas

Last year we brought you "The Night Before Christmas" read by a handful of popular magicians. It was so well received that I asked a few more guys (and gals) to read "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas". See if you can pick out the voices of: Boris Wild, Bob Cassidy, Docc Hilford, Tim Ellis, Tim Trono, George Tait, Rocco Silano, Eric DeCamps, Mandy Farrell, Ice McDonald, Steven Bargatze, Marc Salem, Rick Merrill, Richard Osterlind and, as the Grinch, Eugene Burger.

As I attended several magic conventions over this past year, I took aside a few guys and gals to chat on the podcast. But many of the people graciously agreed to record something special just for this very special podcast. I hope you enjoy hearing their reading of this Doctor Seuss classic. This was one of the most difficult podcasts to edit and took the longest time to gather all the voices to do this one which ended up being one of the shortest ones, too.

This special podcast is my Christmas gift to you for listening for these past few years to the previous 199 podcasts. I wish all the best to you and yours for this holiday season.

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858: Magic at the Beach - Day One Report

Thursday, September 12th

International Podcast Day 2015

#200 - How The Grinch Stole Christmas

Magic & Martinis Thursday...with the Grinch!

The Magic Word