Wednesday April 26th
2:00-5:00 Registration & 4F Shop open
6:00 Dealers’ Room opens (closed during lectures/shows)
7:30 1st Show: 4F Opening Gala (MC: Michael Dardant) featuring: Alan Rorrison, Jeff Eline, Clark Payne, Thomas Solomon, Billy Hsueh, Quentin Reynolds, William Watt, and Alfonso Rituerto
9:00 Lecture #1: Clemens Ilgner
10:00 Hospitality Suite opens
12:00 Dealers’ Room closes
Thursday April 27th
10:00-5:00 Registration open (closed during lectures and shows)
10:00 Dealers’ Room opens (closed during lectures and shows)
10:00-10:30 4F Shop open (closed during lectures and shows)
10:30 Lecture #2: Chris Capehart Lecture
1:30 2nd Show: Mini World (MC: Keith Fields) featuring: Rune Carlsen, Ricardo Rosenkranz, John Michael Hinton, Rian Lehman, Jason Michaels, Alexander Great, Eddie McCall, Jeff Christensen, and Lodewijk de Widt
3:30 ED Talks #1 (MCs: Christian/Katalina) with David Coraro (Fooling Penn & Teller), Jason Michaels (Projecting Close Up Magic on Stage), Mark Zacharia (Using Hypnotism in Close-Up Magic) and Paul Richards (Selling Magic)
3:30 3rd Show: Friends Old & New (MC: Lucy Darling) featuring: Joseph Vidal, Sam Slebhin, Rod Chow, ICE McDonald, George Iglesias, Brian Curry, David Parr and Geoff Williams.
7:30 Lecture #3: Mark Mason
10:00 Hospitality Suite opens
12:00 Dealers’ Room closes
Time stamps for this episode:
00:00:18 - leaving Houston and getting excited for this coming trip to Buffalo as we enjoy coffee and doughnuts from Dunkin’ Donuts
00:04:47 - Jason Michael and Scott are awaiting our shuttle outside of the Buffalo airport as Jason tells us a bit about his upcoming talk at the 4F convention.
00:12:24 - Michael Dardant will be the emcee for the opening afternoon show and what he’s doing on Facebook with the I.B.M.
00:18:46 - Paul LeMere is the GM at the M Hotel and he tells us about the hot wings they serve at this hotel.
00:23:04 - Billy Dubu from France talks about his performance at the Magic Castle and now in Buffalo at the 4F
00:27:16 - Doug Gorman, from San Antonio, Texas, is excited to be here
00:31:04 - Marc DeSouza recaps the Wednesday evening gala show
00:49:50 - Eric DeCamps will be delivering his one-man show this week which is the first time someone has been featured as a solo act at the 4F
00:55:58 - we chat with the Guest of Honor, Mark Mason, who was the subject of Episode #557 and he chats about his magic background that brought him to being the Guest of Honor this year.
01:01:52 - Eva May Nicot talks about getting married to Roger Nicot at this convention some years ago. She also marries people at Stone Henge in England.
01:05:13 - Tom Craven talks about this being his 50th 4F convention. Tom is the only person who has attended every 4F from the beginning. He reminisces about some of his experiences.
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