May, 2025 | Rick Deezie

May 8, 2025 / Restaurant Magic

10 Big Reasons Why Your Restaurant Should Hire a Close-Up Magician

Looking to elevate your guests’ experience, boost repeat business, and stand out in a competitive dining market? Hiring a close-up magician for strolling magic or mingle magic is one of the smartest entertainment decisions a restaurant can make. Here’s why: 🎩 1. Transforms Wait Time into Entertainment Close-up magic atRead More

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The Ethics of Mentalism: Truth, Illusion, and Responsibility
Every art form carries responsibility. For painters, it is the message behind the image. For filmmakers, it is the story they choose to tell. For mentalists, it is something even more delicate: the balance between truth and illusion. When a mentalist appears to read minds, audiences are left wondering howRead More
Performance Psychology: How Confidence Creates Connection
In mentalism, confidence is not just presentation. It’s part of the illusion itself. When a mentalist steps onto the stage, the audience reads every detail — posture, tone, timing, and expression. The performer’s confidence becomes the audience’s belief. Even when something unexpected happens, that calm assurance holds the entire illusionRead More
The Power of Observation: Thinking Like a Mentalist
Most people move through the world half-blind. We see without noticing, hear without listening, and miss the details that reveal the truth behind a person’s words. For a mentalist, those details are everything. In the recent 60 Minutes feature on Oz Pearlman, we saw what happens when someone trains theRead More
Oz Pearlman on 60 Minutes: Reading Minds or Reading People?
Oz Pearlman on 60 Minutes: Reading Minds or Reading People? When 60 Minutes profiled mentalist Oz Pearlman, the segment opened an important conversation about what it truly means to “read minds.” Pearlman insists his act is built on a lie — the lie that he can actually read someone’s thoughts.Read More
Celebrating Magic Week at the Philadelphia Protestant Home
Each year, the last week of October is celebrated as National Magic Week, a tradition established by the Society of American Magicians to honor the art of illusion and the legacy of Harry Houdini. It’s a time for magicians everywhere to share a little wonder with their communities. This week,Read More
🎩 Bringing Family Magic to North Wales, PA: Creating Unforgettable Birthday Memories
When parents in North Wales, PA start planning a birthday party, there’s always one goal in mind — making it a day their child will remember forever. Between choosing the cake, sending invitations, and finding fun activities, it can be easy to overlook the one ingredient that truly makes theRead More
Ten Core Techniques Magicians Use to Create Astonishing Effects
As a Philadelphia magician and mentalist, I often get asked: “How do you do it?” The truth is that magic isn’t built on a single secret, but rather on a fascinating combination of techniques that have been refined for centuries. What follows are ten of the most important methods thatRead More
Can You Really Read Someone’s Mind Just by Watching Their Eyes?
“The eyes are the window to the soul.”— Proverb (and also… possibly your poker face’s worst enemy) We’ve all heard the saying—but in my experience as a mentalist, there’s a surprising amount of truth to it. In fact, I recently shared a video where I demonstrate just how much weRead More
“The paradox of creativity is that the less you force an idea, the more force it has to find expression.”
— Conjurer’s Wisdom Some of the most magical moments—on stage and in life—aren’t the ones you plan down to the second. They’re the ones that unfold naturally, where everything seems to align without trying too hard. That’s the paradox of creativity: when you stop forcing it, the magic finds you.Read More
Can You Tell When Someone’s Lying? A Mentalist’s Hidden Superpower
Have you ever wished you could instantly tell when someone was being dishonest? As a mentalist, I’ve spent years studying human behavior, body language, voice patterns, and microexpressions—honing the ability to detect truth from deception. During my Enigmology show, audiences across Montgomery and Bucks Counties are often stunned when IRead More