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Friday July 29th 2022

8:15-11:00 - Stage Contest12:30 - 14:30: Close-up Contest

8:30 - 9:30: Bernardo Sedlacek

8:00 - 9:00: Brian South

8:00 - 9:00: Paul Gertner

10:00 - 11:00: Stéphane Bourgoin

10:00 - 11:00: Lisa Menna

10:30 - 11:30: Shawn Farquhar

12:00 - 13:00: Ekaterina Dobrokhotov

12:00 - 13:00: Jeki Yoo

14:30 - 15:30: Marc De Souza

16:30 - 17:30: Lee Asher

17:30 - 18:30: Michael Weber Experience

17:45 - 18:45: Alain Choquette

19:00 - 20:15: Spectacle - One Man Show: Dani DaOrtiz - Group A

Banquet Group B: 19:00 - 21:00

21:30 - 23:00: Close-up Gala

23:30 - 0:30: Chip Romero - Lecture about Doug Henning

23:30 - 0:30: Eric Jones

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Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:16 - At the convention center, John Kaplan talks about this being his first FISM plus his first visit to Quebec despite being a Canadian citizen.

00:05:54 - Ed Ripley, a U.S. competitor, talks about his side of the story of why his act didn’t score well in the contests

00:11:11 - During a break in the stage competition, Steve Friedberg, a friend from Pennsylvania and frequent attendee at the F.F.F.F. convention, he talks about why he is enjoying this FISM event. As he says, although we all speak different languages, we all speak “Magic.”

00:17:16 - The afternoon competitions have ended and we chat with one of the funniest men on the planet, John Archer. He was on the bill of the previous night’s bill and talks about scripting the show.

00:23:28 - Mark DeSouza and Scott give a description of the people and acts in the stage competition.

00:39:43 - Peter Samelson and Scott cover the close-up contest (Marc DeSouza was a presenter and missed seeing the competition).

01:05:55 - Zabrecky hosted the evening show and now we get to chat with Benjamin Barnes who is attending his first FISM. He gives us his opinion of the event plus his projections of who might be the winners.

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