"Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur" Latin Proverb - "The world wants to be fooled, so fool it." The following story really did happen to me in 2016. I sometimes tell it during my magic shows.... I was sitting at a table in a coffee shop, waiting for my friend Dave, and happened to have a magnet in my pocket. So I put my car keys on the table and used the magnet underneath the table to move the keys around. I wasn’t performing a trick for anyone—nobody was watching—this is

Six Week Theater Run The Big Magic Show In some places, six weeks is considered a long theater run. But I was still sad when it was over... Until the next one! The stage was foggy and the searchlights flew around, after the drum-roll the pretty and feminine voice of my lovely assistant Celeste comes from overhead... "Ladies and gentlemen please welcome, the must-have mustache magician... Elias Caress!" Then begins the exotic music of Korla Pandit and I take the stage dressed

I was recently approached by a Utah reality show called Random Acts to make a son and two grandchildren magically appear for his mother during my magic show. The show was a brilliant concept, calling itself a 'kindness prank show'. They would surprise and 'prank' people in nice way, sometimes paying compliments sometimes paying cash. Sometimes to random strangers on the street, sometime to special people who've been nominated by family and loved ones. My task was quite a cha