We had a brief business meeting before our Parlor Magic Teach-In. The following individuals were discussed and approved for next year’s Mile High Magicians’ Society Executive Board, with no contested seats it was agreed to bypass the time and effort of a formal election and elect them with a motion that passed unanimously. Your 2024 Officers will be:
- President: Dan Rodriguez
- Vice-President: Shawn Popp
- Secretary: AJ Perea
- Treasurer: Shane Cohan
- Sergeant-at-Arms: Jeff and Karen Wake
- Appointed Editor: Nate Reeves
- Appointed Executive Committee Advisors: Steve Spangler and Brad Montgomery.
The meeting then kicked off with Jeff and Karen Wake showcasing two wooden boxes capable of making a shot glass vanish and reappear in the opposite box.
Dr. Ralph MacIntosh had five envelopes that might contain money. Five volunteers could either keep or trade them. Some envelopes had $1, one had $5, and the magician ended up with $100!
Gerald Robinson shuffled a deck of cards and had three selected. Ultimately, one card was picked from those three. The trick was based on Annemann’s modified Yogi Book Test and it was truly remarkable.
Gene Gordon performed a trick where a card was selected, signed, and lost in the deck. At the shout of “BANG,” a single card flew out of the deck. Gene caught it, revealing it to be the signed card from the audience, complete with a burnt-edge hole!
Chad Wonder involved three spectators who placed their cell phone in a red bag inside a blue box, a blue bag inside a green box and a green bag inside a red box. The helpers then stood on stage and opened their box that now contained a matching color bag and their cell phone.
Keir Mathur presented his Pirates of the Caribbean routine. An empty bottle was tossed into the ocean without a message inside. However, when the bottle was later found, it contained a silk with correct audience predictions, based on three random questions.
AJ Perea offered a lesson on thermodynamics, showing us the Bounce-no-bounce trick to explain kinetic and potential energy. He then prepared a cup of black tea using cold water and set it aside. A spectator randomly selected the 2 of Hearts, tore it, and threw it in the trash. Though the card never returned to the deck, it was later found in the cup of tea, attached to the tea bag string tag.
Lastly, Glenn Proulx demonstrated an antique Telemental Box that contained four wooden blocks with numbers. These could be inserted into another box and both boxes were locked. Using his “X-ray vision,” Glenn was able to discern which numbers were inserted and in what order.