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870: Mysterious Maks - Ukrainian Phenomenon

Mysterious Maks is from Ukraine but currently resides in New York City, New York. He was a finalist in “Uri Geller’s Next Phenomenon” television show in the Ukraine. As a result of his notoriety on that show and others where he was featured that led him to be quite well-known and in demand among the Russian politico and the oligarchy. He also ran a successful brick-and-mortar magic shop in Kiev, Ukraine. All was looking bright for his future, but then, fate intervened. He traveled to the U.S. on holiday and the week after he landed, Russia declared war on the Ukraine. He is now stuck here and unable to return home and is only able to talk on the phone with his mother and family as he hears about the death and destruction going on in the background.

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This week, Mysterious Maks tells us about his journey to become a mentalist leading to his television experience and exposure where he met Uri Geller and how he got on the Next Phenomenon show. He also tells us about the kind of magic that is performed in Ukraine and finally, he tells us his story about how he got “stuck” in the U.S. and how he found a supportive group of friendly magicians in New York City who have helped him get by and encouraged him to continue with his dreams.

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Tagged with Mysterious Max, Ukraine, Uri Geller, Eric Dittelman, mentalist.

November 14, 2024 by Scott Wells.
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767: Randy Wakeman - I've Been Around for a Long, Long Years

Randy Wakeman has been around for many decades and was often seen lecturing and performing at magic conventions. Nonetheless, I have always seen him as an “underground” magician who appeals to the true sleight-of-hand experts. He is one of those guys who has “been there, done that, has the t-shirt” as he was one of the regular performers about the Chicago Bar Magic Scene before the turn of the last century. He has written several books on magic (card magic mostly) and is still relevant in our community as a performer, teacher and author.

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While at the recent Senior Tour close-up convention in St. Louis, The Magic Word spoke with Randy as part of the convention report content. He was preparing for a workshop, so we didn’t get a chance to go in-depth as I had wanted. But we agreed to get together at the 4F convention in Buffalo a couple months later. True to his word, we sat down to complete our chat which results in this episode. The content of our chat in both places was a little disjunctive, so the editing required us to put the second conversation first then plug in the chat in St. Louis and finish with our talk while in Buffalo. This sounds more confusing that it actually is, but I know you will understand and enjoy our chat.

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Tagged with Randy Wakeman, Jon Racherbaumer, Jay Marshall, Ed Marlo, Bill Malone, Penn & Teller, Chicago magic bar, magic exposure, Luis De Matos, Pat Page, Del Ray, Simon Lovell, Jim Ryan, Eddie Fechter, Gary Plants, Mac King, Heba Haba Al.

June 29, 2023 by Scott Wells.
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642: In the Classroom with Lior Manor

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Lior Manor is more than a creative mindreader with fantastic products for the working mentalist, but he is also a very busy professional performer traveling around the world and specializing in entertaining the tech world of executives. This week we happened upon Lior quite by accident when attending the 2021 Abbott’s Get Together in Colon, Michigan. I was not expecting to see him there and he was not one of the paid performers nor lecturers. He was indiscreetly moving among the registrants for the most part quite unnoticed…except for me. We found a quiet office in the local high school and sat down for an interesting chat.

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Lior tells about some of his travels and exploits and creations in this week’s episode.

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Tagged with Lior Manor, mentalism, Uri Geller, The Amazing Kreskin, Tim Conover, Richard Busch, P.E.A., Banachek.

September 23, 2021 by Scott Wells.
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