928: T.A.O.M. 2025 Convention Report from Dallas, Texas

Friday, August 29, 2025

4:00 PM TAOM Board Meeting

6:00 PM Dinner Buffet

8:00 PM Dealer Exhibition

12:00 AM Midnight Madness

Saturday, August 30,2025

8:00 AM Breakfast

9:30 AM Lecture

11:00 AM Lecture

12:30 PM Lunch

2:00 PM Lecture

4:00 PM lecture

6:30 PM TAOM General Meeting and Memoriam

7:00 PM Picnic BBQ Dinner Buffet

8:00 PM A Night of Prestidigitation

9:30 PM TAOM 2026 Convention and Swearing in of New TAOM Officers

10:00 PM Midnight Madness

Time Stamps for this episode:

00:00:17 – announcement of winners from recent contest for the book “Practicing the Art of Magic” who were: Gary Weimer, Gary Freidrich, George Reis, Nicholas Nardi, Alison Homburger, and Greg Youngs.

00:02:46 – Kent Cummins joins me in the car drive to Dallas for the convention as we talk about our expectations and Kent’s experiences of past conventions.

00:16:37 – Eric Hogue is the President of this year’s event and he tells us what to expect and some of the challenges he has had over the past year in planning this.

00:25:54 – Clark May, owner of the Rabbit in Hat magic shop in Locust Grove, Oklahoma. This is his first T.A.O.M. convention and he tells us why it’s taken so long to get here.

00:37:11 – From South Africa, Trevor Duffy joins us to talk about his nationwide lecture tour. He is a dealer at this convention.

00:47:02 – a brief overview of what happened so far, then we talk with John Carter who is an avid magic collector and was one of the people to helped Chip Romero put together the Doug Henning exhibit at MAGIC Live! He tells us about that experience.

00:54:38 – more updates on what the morning brought us. Scott Hollingsworth, Entertainment Director of Houston’s Magic Island, who brings us up to date on the October 1st opening of the Magic Island.

01:03:14 – Gene Protas will be the T.A.O.M. President for 2026 who already has the talent planned and everything else you need to know like hotel, registration, and more.

01:08:37 – Now Past President, Eric Hogue and Scott wraps up the convention as Eric tells us how he felt the day went for him.

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785: TAOM 2023 Convention - Day One Report

September 1, 2023

10:00 AM until 7:00 PM Registration Open

12:00 PM until 6:30 PM Dealers Room Open

11:30 AM until 1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM until 2:30 PM Lecture David and Jake Rangel

2:30 PM until 4:00 PM Lecture Jamie Salinas

4:00 PM until 5:00 PM TAOM Board Meeting

4:00 PM until 6:00 PM Strolling Magic

5:00 PM until 7:00 PM Dinner

7:00 PM until 9:00 PM Stage Show #1

* Bill Palmer

* David and Jake Rangel

* Harry Maurer

9:30 PM until 11:00 PM Lecture Chad Long

9:15 PM until 10:00 PM Strolling Magic

11:00 PM until midnight Chip Romero

710: Poe's Magic Conference 2022 - Day Four Report

Sunday - August 21, 2022
11:00 AM - PAUL PRATER (LECTURE/WORKSHOP)
12:00 PM - PARLOR SHOW hosted by Vlad including Bradley Barefoot, Krystal Younglove, Mark Strivings, Jeff McBride and Paul Prader
2:00 PM - LUNCH BREAK
3:30 PM - JEFF MCBRIDE SUPER SESSION
4:00 PM - DAN ECKHART (LECTURE/WORKSHOP)
5:30 PM - DINNER
7:30 PM - CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR (LECTURE/WORKSHOP)
8:00 PM - ANDRUZZI AWARDS presented to:

The Tony Andruzzi Award – Jeff McBride

Thurston Award – Rolando Santos

Kellar Award – Peter Samelson

Herrmann Award – Christopher Taylor

Dante Award – Paul Prater

Annemann Awad – Terry Tyson

Carter Award – Krystal Younglove

Blackstone Award – Scott Wells

Poe Award – Joseph Daniels

9:00 PM - HIAWATHA (LECTURE/WORKSHOP)
11:30 PM - BLACK CAT LOUNGE

AFTER SHOW TERRY TYSON

BLACK CAT LOUNGE OPEN UNTIL ???

Time stamps for this episode:

00:01:42 - Doug Gorman is one of the dealers at the conference who tells us about what kinds of things dealers bring to sell at this kind of event.

00:08:28 - One of the performers over this weekend is Professor BC (a Renaissance college professor) who has a Victorian character who describes a macabre author M.R. James. He also owns an original Shakespeare folio.

00:17:03 - Seance Master, Terry Tyson, tells about how his seances have evolved over the decades, He currently works with not just one, but multiple tables of sitters, which is different from the normal seance.

00:27:50 - Another one of the dealers/presenters/lecturers, Mark Strivings tells us why he loves to attend and present at these kinds of events.

00:42:34 - Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker for the weekend, Jeff McBride, talks about his long history of attending these bizarre events that goes back to Jeff meeting Eugene Burger and altering the course of his life.

00:43:39 - Vince Wilson wraps up the conference by recapping what all went on this weekend.