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

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713: Texas Association of Magicians 2022 - Report on Days Three and Four

Sunday - September 4, 2022
8:00 AM - Gospel Magic
9:00 PM - The Magic Word Podcast with Scott Wells featuring a chat with Jeanette Andrews
9:30 AM - T.A.O.M. General Meeting
10:00 AM - Lynetta Welch (LECTURE) Fabric Manipulation
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM - Dealers Open
11:00 AM - Texas Magic Collectors
2:30 - 5:00 PM - Dealers Open LAST CALL!
11:30 AM - Fort Worth Magic Championships
1:00 PM - Bruce Chadwick (LECTURE)
3:00 PM - Professional Close-Up Show
7:30 PM - Classics of Magic with Awards Ceremony before the show
10:00 PM - Gay Blackstone (VIDEO LECTURE) Life After Blackstone

Monday, September 5, 2022
8:30 AM - Jay Zugai (LECTURE)
10:00 PM - Fabian (LECTURE) Puddin’ it Together

Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:18 - JD Stewart and I talk about the agenda for the day plus a recap of the previous evening’s activities and show. Plus, JD talks about his New Magic Academy.

00:19:48 - In the dealers’ room we stop for a chat with Harry Allen and discuss what’s new

00:24:43 - Losander chats about this convention and his appearance here as a performer and lecturer

00:31:23 - From Fabric Manipulation, Lynetta Welch tells us about her egg bags and more. She also talks about Johnny “The Great Tomsoni” Thompson’s jacket which she brought with her to display. We also hear a tidbit about the late Doug Henniing that was interesting to know.

00:38:01 - Fabian Moreno talks about his portion of the convention who will be giving a lecture and hosted the Midnight Madness and performed at a couple other events.

00:51:26 - Stage Contest winner, Paprika, chats with us about how she developed her award winning act.

00:58:15 - Dal Sanders and I chat about the evening’s show that was a “Twilight Zone” themed show and the people who performed it.

01:12:42 - Jay Zugai talks about his participation inn this year’s convention. He was a triple threat who lectured and performed in the “professional close-up” show, he lectured plus he closed the final night show with his stage show that featured his dog who did tricks. Jay was featured so prominently in the convention and was seen almost as much as Bronson and his dad, Bruce, who also did everything.

01:20:31 - Close-up competitor, Ray Adams, and Stage Comedy winner, Greg Youngs talk about how they prepared to compete for this convention contest.

00:24:45 - Silvain Juzan from Luxembourg was a stand-out lecturer and }professional close-up” performer talks about this being one of his first convention appearances in the U.S.

00:35:05 - T.A.O.M. 2022 President Bronson Chadwick recaps the convention as he “takes a breath” now that the convention is over.

Sign up now for the T.A.O.M. convention in Houston, Texas next September. Click on the graphic above to visit the website. Register today because registrations will be limited to 250!

#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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