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The JV Club with Janet Varney

Boys of Summer - Piff the Magic Dragon

The JV Club with Janet Varney

Maximum Fun

Comedy Interviews, Jv, Arts, Maximumfun, Interview, Janet, Leisure, High School, Club, Varney, Comedy

51K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Venture into the magical world of Piff The Magic Dragon, who rose to fame from high school hijinx to local magic shows to Edinburgh to Penn & Teller to America’s Got Talent to his own show in Vegas! It’s enough to inspire any fledgling dragon! Or magician! This Boy of Summer reminds us that there are so many different ways and roads to take to become the thing you are, with plenty of Piff’s signature dryly hilarious delivery along the way.

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0:00.0

Hey Wunderfels, welcome to episode 475 of the JV club with my boy of Summer Piff the Magic Dragon.

0:06.2

Some of you may have noticed that I also called last week's episode 475.

0:10.8

Big shout out to my PR buddy and colleague Chris Royce who noticed that and it is of

0:18.8

course because of the bonus episode with Ivana Lynch, aka Luna Lovegood, that went out to all of you who are

0:26.9

members of Max Fun.

0:29.0

So this is actually episode 475.

0:31.9

What a joy it was to speak to piff the magic dragon. I love people who work in I don't

0:37.8

want to call it conventional worlds because I wouldn't say the world of magic is necessarily

0:40.6

conventional and who's to say what's conventional but I do so love

0:44.5

when people find kind of an alternative way to exist in a world that often is

0:50.4

expressed through other means.

0:53.2

There just aren't a lot of people wearing dragon outfits doing magic

0:56.9

and being hilarious.

0:57.8

So I hope you enjoy this episode.

0:59.8

If you are listening to it on Thursday, July 7th. You also have the opportunity to come see

1:05.1

Dante Bosco and me. Adam Savage I think is also going to be there at the Florida

1:09.5

Supercon in Miami. And just to wrap this up, I hope everybody's doing okay in what can only

1:15.1

be described as a very stressful time in the world so stay safe stay hopeful

1:22.4

and I'll talk to you next week. Oh, We have a friend in common and Mr. Michael Geier. I think you're going to be touring with him, right? Yeah, yeah, he's a good guy.

1:56.8

How did you guys meet? Was it like a blind date talent thing where people were like, you know who should know each other these guys

2:03.8

not as exciting as that unfortunately no we met doing the Edinburgh festival okay

2:10.4

nice how long ago did you do it? I did it like eight years in a row. Oh, there it is. I have so many friends who have put on shows there and every time it's been going on there's always something that makes it really difficult to be gone for that amount of time and so initially I was the person who was like I'm sure I can just swing by for a week, right? And that's just the most, like, presumptuous,

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