Benjamin Earl – The Family – June 2025 ft. Alex Pandrea

This month's guest is Alex Pandrea!

A magician who has helped a generation handle cards—and who’s stepped away in recent years to spend more time with his own family—is back to share his perspective.

He’ll be offering some beautifully strange mystery-card work, stories from inside the magic industry, and how his mindset around magic has shifted with time.

We’re excited for what’s coming—and we’re glad you’re here for it.


A card they've never seen—and somehow know

This week in The Family, the immaculate Alex Pandrea is sharing a fun, personal take on one of the most mind-bending plots in card magic: the mystery card.

It’s a perfect example of that paradoxical Schrödinger-ness—where a card is both known and unknown until the exact moment of revelation. Alex’s touches are thoughtful, practical, and worth spending time with.


Inside The Family this week:
Alex Pandrea is giving it all away.

If you know Alex, you know his love for two moves in particular: the Convincing Control and the Diagonal Palm Shift. This week, he’s revealing the real work; the hidden subtleties that make these techniques sing.

Alex's handling of the Convincing Control is the pinnacle of how good the move can look. It's a beauty.

There's one Diagonal Palm Shift subtlety in particular that impressed Ben so much he's been working on it ever since!