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853: Michael Mode - Getting in the Mode

One of the regular attendees at the annual Abbott’s Get Together, Michael Mode (from Detroit) used to be a very busy trade show magician specializing in auto shows. Now settled with another full time job outside of magic, he maintains his roots by keeping in the loop each year at Colon, Michigan. For a while, Michael used to coordinate the Amish dinners by providing magicians to perform for their families during the Get Togethers. Back in the days of the iTouch, he and Jeff Hobson developed a joke app that sold very well and is now available as a book entitled “Best Jokes Ever.” Michael is also the creator of the two-colored napkins that magicians use for Napkin to Rose.

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This week Michael Mode talks about his work with auto shows, his relationship with Michigan magicians including Franz Harary and Jeff Hobson. Michael discusses the joke app he and Jeff Hobson developed that later became an encyclopedic book. You just look for a subject then find a joke to fit that subject, either clean or mature. Michael also talks about his development of the two-colored napkins used for Napkin to Rose.

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Tagged with Michael Mode, Jason Byrne, Brett Daniels, Abbott's Get Together, Al the Only, Doug Scheer, Jeff Hobson, Scotty York, trade shows, napkin rose, Amish, Jeff Bibik, restaurant magic.

August 22, 2024 by Scott Wells.
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824 - Keith Leff - the Everyman Magician

There are many magicians around the world who grind out a living as a magician meaning that they take any and all magic jobs and perform anywhere. Keith Leff is one of those magicians who is not one the “celebrity magicians” who is well-known in the magic world, but is one of those “everyman magicians” who is dependable, reliable, solid, and capable who keeps busy with the business of magic, whatever it takes. Moreover, after so many years “in the trenches” he has recently been traveling across the country with his magic lecture where he sells some of his original creations and lecture notes.

If you are a more visual person, then perhaps you might enjoy watching our Zoom chat for this episode.

In this episode, Keith gives tips and advice from his lecture and his many years of professional experience including working at fairs and festivals as well as corporate parties and restaurants.

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Tagged with Keith Leff, restaurant magic, fairs, festivals.

March 28, 2024 by Scott Wells.
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777: Abbott's 85th Get Together 2023 Convention - Day Three Report

Friday, August 4th

9:30AM REGISTRATION OPENS at the Abbott Plant
9:30AM ABBOTT'S TALENT CONTEST (more info ) at High School (requires registration)
10:00AM ABBOTT'S DEALERS ROOM OPENS (requires registration)
11:00AM - 5:00PM COLON ARTS AND CRAFTS FAIR (Craft Show/Vendor Info)
12:00PM FREE STREET PERFORMANCE (Odd Cory & JuJu Sideshow at Grannys)
1:00PM LECTURE - MAC KING (requires registration)
1:00PM MAGIC SHOW featuring Tim Wright at Abbott's Magic Theatre $5
2:00PM JAY BLACKWELL JUGGLING/FIRE EATING & MORE at Sterlini Magic & Theater $10
2:30PM ABBOTT'S CLOSEUP SHOW (requires registration)
3:00PM FACE PAINTING till 6PM outside 5 Star Pizza by Award Winning Artist Carol Hendrix (Standard Fees)
3:00PM-5PM COLON HISTORICAL MUSEUM is open (Colon Museum Webpage)
4:00PM FREE STREET PERFORMANCE (Gordon Russ at Colon Library)
4:30PM MAGIC SHOW featuring Rocky Clements at Abbott's Magic Theatre $5
5:00PM LIVE AT 5 WITH THE STERLINI'S at Sterlini Magic & Theater $10
5:30PM FREE STREET PERFORMANCE (Trino at Curlys)
6:00PM-7:45PM DINNER (on your own)
7:45PM PRESHOW LIVE ORGAN MUSIC - by John Sturk
8:00PM ABBOTT'S STAGE SHOW - THE FAR EAST MAGIC GALA
          Featuring Kento Mukai (Japan), Shimpei Katsuragawa (Japan), Takehito Inoue (Japan), Yukihiro Katayama (Japan), Yu Komohara (Japan), Shouma (Japan)
10:00PM ABBOTT'S DEALERS ROOM OPENS (requires registration)
10:15PM DAVID MCCREARY at Sterlini Magic & Theater $15
10:30PM ABBOTT'S TALENT CONTEST AWARDS (requires registration)

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Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:18 – Lance Burton helps recap the Wednesday night show plus a little update on what he is doing.

00:07:09 – Meadow Perry visits us and talks about her experience traveling with her children to their first magic convention. She also talks about her recent  competition experience with the S.A.M.

00:12:21 – Dave Cressey is the king of mouth coils and chats a bit about Paul Diamond and some other stories about his business

00:22:07 – Chuck Arkin, International President of the I.B.M., tells us about his vision for the coming year of his dreams and vision.

00:33:31 – While at dinner at an Amish farm house, Micheal Trixx tells us about his experience of performing and traveling up from Florida.

00:39:51 – before the evening show begins, we chat with Keith Fields and Randy Wakeman who just arrived and tells us what they are doing.

00:44:56 – Ewe Sperlich and Gundun Frailech traveled from Munich, Germany, for this convention after listening to the Magic Word Podcast. They talk about their experience here in Colon.

00:49:00 – BJ Mallen announces the winners of the stage contest. Third Place was Buddy August; Second Place went to Scott Hannemann, and First Place went to Anthony Stockton.

00:53:00 – Tamara and John Sterlini talk about their contributions to the Capitol of Magic and how they try to keep the magic “alive” by encouraging tourists to travel to Colon to see shows they sponsor in their theater.

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August 4, 2023 by Scott Wells.
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