So my daughter turned six in December and if you haven't been six in a while or had a

six-year-old in your house, let me just remind you, birthdays are a big deal at this age.

And as a parent, even if you don't get sucked into spending a lot of money on presents

and parties, it feels like such a big milestone when kids are little, you really want to celebrate.

And especially during this pandemic when things were short of strange and sad, really even on the

best days, it felt even more important to try to make our daughter's birthday special.

But how could we do that and stay safe? My wife and I, we debated what to do. What would be

the safest way to gather? We thought that would be to do something outside, but it's December

in Boston. All right, so what about a party over Zoom? And I know what you're thinking. Those

words don't really go well together. Zoom party for a six-year-old. If we did that, though,

we need to do something to make it more than your average Zoom call. And that's when we realized

there was just one man for this job. Tricky Tim is what I go by, so that's the name I'll stick with,

but do magic since I was four years old. Tricky Tim, Zoom magician extraordinaire. This guy who's

been single, handedly saving birthday parties for kids around the world during this pandemic.

When I started these, it wasn't because I said, oh no, I need to make money somehow.

It was because I had to save this girl's birthday. This girl is going to have a terrible

birthday. If I don't come up with a really good show, that's going to somehow work over video.

How in the world am I going to do that? Well, he didn't. I'm telling you, I've never seen my

daughter laugh that hard ever. I mean like a full-on belly laugh. The kind of laugh where you're

laughing so hard, there's almost no sound coming out of your mouth anymore. And to be honest,

it's not even clear that oxygen transfer is occurring at that point.

So it is possible for a Zoom party to be a smash success, but for all the people who did still

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