597: Ken Scott - Kids! Conventions! Corporate!

Atlanta-based magician, Ken Scott Wisenbaker, dropped his legal last name to a shortened stage name of “Ken Scott.” Find out this week why he changed it and who recommended it. Ken is a multiple year winning Magician of the Year for the Atlanta club. He will be the incoming International President of the I.B.M. at this year’s annual convention slated for July 7-10 in Pittsburgh, PA. He is also the organizer of the annual Atlanta Harvest of Magic convention. But Ken is perhaps best know (certainly around Atlanta) as one of the premiere kid show performers entertaining at birthday parties, libraries and schools. But he also performs for corporate functions as well.

Ken Scottmagic. Baseball hall of famer Ozzie Smith joins me as well.

Ken Scott predicts what card you will pick!

This week, Ken talks about magic conventions and we discuss a little about the current state of these events and their possible future. Of course, Ken tells about his work with performing for children and a little about his corporate work, too.

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502: Day Two - 2019 I.B.M. Convention

2019 Convention Schedule - Scottsdale, Arizona

Thursday July 11th 2019

8 a.m. - 9 a.m. - I.B.M. TVP Informal Meeting

8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Stage Contest Rehearsal

9 a.m. - NOON Registration Open

9 a.m. - 5 p.m. I.B.M. Magic Shops Open

10:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. Lecture John Ferrentino

10 a.m. Spouse Event - Meet at Registration Ballroom Lobby

11 a.m.- 12 p.m. Lance Burton Teen Scene #1

11:15 a.m. - 12 p.m. Stage Contest Rehearsal

11:15 a.m. Annual Business Meeting.

1 p.m.-3 p.m. Stage Contest Part 2

1 p.m.- 5 p.m. Registration Open

6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Doug Henning Exhibit with Chip Romero

8 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Evening Of Magic With M.C. Michael Finney, Bizzaro, and Mike Hammer

10:30 p.m. till ? Magical Evening with Joshua Jay

Time Stamps for this podcast:

00:00:17 - Ken Scott, International Vice President of the I.B.M. and co-convention chairman

00:09:20 - Tyas Frantz, Manager for Banachek

00:18:33 - John Ferrentino

00:25:22 - Ron Hudspeth, past chairman of Territorial Vice President Committee, and Tom Vojohan, co-chairman of the convention

00:31:40 - Greg Wilson talking about preserving the Allakazam archives

00:33:47 - Harry Allen, Daytona Magic Shop talks about some of the popular, new tricks offered in the Dealers’ Room

00:37:39 - David DaVinci, one of the performers/lecturers at this convention

341: Houdini-Opoly with Dick Brookz and Dorothy Dietrich

Dorothy Dietrich and Dick Brookz own and operate the Houdini Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania. They have both led extraordinary lives and worthy of talking more about their Houdini museum, the Houdini seance, and the former Magic Townhouse in New York City. They talk about all these things but the purpose of this particular podcast is to help the magic world learn more about their newest project, "Houdini-Opoly"

They have been working on this board game for over two years and with the Kickstarter campaign now being fully funded just before this podcast was released. So not it's on to meet their "stretch" goals to pay for the "enhancements". Thanks to your support, it appears that it will be in production soon this year. The Magic Word Podcast is selective in providing a platform for promoting individuals or pet projects. But this is one I support and think is of particular interest to our community. But even if you choose not to support the cause and buy a game, the rest of our chat is interesting as we talk about the old Magic Townhouse in New York City and why it closed and the museum moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania. We also discuss the Houdini seance and the museum.

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