Jeff McBride

Thank you

... that you've had on, the speakers, uh, Professor BC, Jeff McBride, damn, you know, uh, V- Vlad.

Who, who doesn't love-

Yeah

And I think what really connected me with him was the fact that like every magician I had seen up to that point.

at least personally, was the like Lance Burton, Jeff McBride with the big flashy coattails and, you know, whatever.

And I watched Matt Franco perform.

And to me, it was like the style of magic I really enjoyed doing.

Yeah, I'm really, I'm working Wonderground September 17th.

That's the, uh, Will Bradshaw, Jeff McBride magic experience we do monthly here.

And it's always dark in there.

I always try to get footage and it's always crappy.

But what about things like maybe like a guest, uh, guest magician, uh, appearing.

Yeah.

Like, like here's one, you know, Hey, uh, today we're going to Jeff McBride's house.

This is where the magic and mystery school happens.

That is Eugene Burger.

He is, uh, Larry is the dean of the, uh, mystery, Magic Mystery School, Jeff McBride's Mystery School.

Yeah.

Um, he-

And so they kind of come together in the middle.

And I always say that people like Kevin James and Jeff McBride have that, right? Where it's like, they're definitely have, they have character.

There's like this, like Jeff McBride to me is a time, like a, tour guide through time, right? He shows you magic from different time periods and all this stuff.

And Kevin James obviously is an inventor and, and kind of that, that, that guy, right? But he, they don't lean so far into it that they're putting on like, like Rudy Kobe, like lab equipment, call themselves lab man, stuff like that.

So there's this middle ground.

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The book is called Just Alan, Not Just Magic.

Alan, welcome to the Magic Book Podcast.

I've set up booths for people at trade shows.

I've done all kinds of work.

I've been in over 20 shows with Jeff McBride.

The Thursday night show, which is the night before the convention starts, was me...

Lance Burton, Joseph Gabriel, and Jeff McBride, all people Tony Spina didn't think would be good enough for the weekend.

Which has been like a running joke between all of us.

That's hilarious.

And I loved watching, you know, sort of y- th- being the voyeur watching all the people that were filming at Magic Live and just walking by, and the guys that just don't care, you know? That are just like, they're dressed there at their table, and it's just...

You know, as, as Jeff McBride says, it's like they're only good from the wrist down, you know what I mean? So-

[laughs] Yeah

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