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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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#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.

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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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Magic & Martinis Thursday...with the Grinch!

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December 4, 2014 by Scott Wells.
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149: Day 3 - East Coast Mind Jam 2014

Day Three of the East Coast Mind Jam was a little off schedule due to a travel problem for Marc Salem from England. But the day began with an interesting lecture by Joe Atmore on The Amazing Dunninger. that included some fun, old videos from Dunninger's television show  It didn't hurt that Joe bought a few dozen doughnuts from Dunkin' Donuts to entice better attendance at this early hour. After lunch we were visited by Tony Spina. Eric Citron, organizer of the Mind Jam, presented a "Lifetime Achievement in Magic Award" to Tony followed by several people who gave testimonials and recollections of their time with Tony.

This flowed directly into a special edition of "Now You See It with Scott Wells", a talk show that featured magicians from the weekend: George Tait (Patrick Redford), Joe Atmore, Ted Karmilovich, Bill Gladwell and Richard Osterlind. This took us right up to the time when Marc Salem arrived. The stage was struck and Marc began his one man show. That followed with his lecture that included some explanations of tricks from his working repertoire.

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I apologize for the buzzing sound in this podcast but the microphone was near speaker which had an annoying buzz that I could not take out. Time stamps for this podcast:

00:01:24 - Tony Spina, former owner of Tannen's Magic, accepts an award plus several people tell stories of their influence by Tony.

00:17:57 - "Now You See It With Scott Wells" with George Tait up first.

00:30:50 - Joe Atmore tells some great stories about working with Uri Geller

00:4:41 - Ted Karmilovich talks about performing at a casino

00:53:30 - Bill Gladwell chats about how he got his one man show in Gatlinburg, Tennessee

00:58:30 - Richard Osterlind recounts a story about David Copperfield

01:06:03 - everyone on the couch tells their story of a highlight performance from their careers.

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March 31, 2014 by Scott Wells.
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