829: Obie's 4F 2024 Close-Up Convention - Day Three Report

Friday April 26, 2024

10:30 a.m. Tricks from Books Everyone Has Forgotten (MC: Mike Powers)

1:30 p.m. 4th Show Magical Moments (MC: Meir Yedid)

3:30 p.m. Lecture #5 Jovi Benitez

7:45 p.m. Tribute to GOH Charming Choi (host: Jeki Yoo)

8:00 p.m. Korean Gala (MC: Charming Choi)

Time Stamps:

(00:00) Theyagic Word Podcast welcomes Glenn Brown to talk about the 51st convention

(02:21) About 130 people are from the US; the rest are spread amongst 17 countries

(06:14) Next year's convention is still planned for the same hotel as this year

(06:39) We ask people to provide two sponsors, people who have attended four f

(09:23) Glenn Brown: One of our guests lost his passport on a plane

(12:51) This is the 51st year of the four F convention

(16:19) A magician is a director to the actors, to the spectators

(20:23) The best story wins. Rather than saying, you want to see a trick

(22:25) Darryl: There is no other convention in the world like this one

(26:36) There are perks to giving back to magicians, right? Yeah. Well, there are perks, certainly,

(28:33) The magic circle now streams live on Monday night during COVID

(32:01) Daryl: The beauty of this convention is everyone's limited to five minutes

(34:31) Darryl Rose: This is the best close up convention in the magic world

(36:19) Every convention is worth it if you come away with something that you can use

(40:19) Rick Wilcox will be attending the TRICS convention in Charlotte in November

(44:16) You're receiving the Melbourne Christopher award for illusionist, best

(45:35) Obviously we want to talk about now before our season starts, so. So we had a 25th season

(46:50) You've been coming to 4F since 2002

(50:28) Rick says Bernardo always thinks of four numbers when doing magic

(53:41) Roger Nicot, and Eva Mae got married here nine years ago

(55:47) So have you seen much of the convention from the standpoint, you've been a dealer

(57:58) You're going to be a dealer at MAGIC Live this year, right

(59:17) Scott: They're getting ready for the main show right now

(59:28) Scott: We had a wonderful show by Korean magicians tonight

(01:01:04) Jekiyoo: I'm glad that all of you guys came over

(01:03:48) The Magic Word podcast is over. You scotty out

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678: Obie's 4F 2022 Virtual Convention Report

Saturday, April 30, 2022 - Organized by Michel Huot & Rune Carlsen

11:30 Zoom opens
11:50 Obie’s Broken Wand Ceremony by Meir Yedid
12-2:00 Teach a Trick - MC: Rune Carlsen
1-2:00 Zoom Rooms open
2-2:30 Dealer show
2:30-3 4F TED - Q&A: Lost in the Shuffle
3-4:00 Zoom Rooms open
4-5:15 International Gala Show - MC: Michel Huot
5:15-6 Zoom Rooms open
6-7:00 Surprise Guest Show (Ondrej Psenicka from the Czech Republic)

Time stamps for this podcast: (to be filled in later after I’ve slept and eaten)

00:00:16 -

677: Prelude to Obie's 4F 2022 Virtual Convention V49.9

As we prepare for yet another (and hopefully last) online convention, we chat with three of the people “behind the scenes” who are making this happen. Glenn Brown is the Registration person and the two main organizers of this virtual convention are Michel lHuot, from Canada, and Rune Carlsen, from Norway. This episode will hopefully whet your appetite for the “fork full of magic” that will be presented this weekend.

Watch our Zoom conversations of today’s episode on YouTube.

Time stamps for this podcast:

00:03:39 - Glenn Brown tells us why we are meeting yet again for another virtual convention and he also tells us who will be “in charge” since Obie O’Brien has passed away.

00:16:53 -Michel Huot and Rune Carlsen will be the two people “behind the scenes” making all of the virtual magic work. They also give us a rundown of what we might expect this weekend.