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Trust me, do you trust me, trust me, trust me, I'm like a smart person, I've never

lied to you, I've never had lied to you.

If you think that one person has all the answers, don't, welcome to Trust Me.

The podcast about cult, extreme belief, and the abuse of power from two people with no

psychic ability to actually experience it, I am Lola Blonk, and I am Megan Elizabeth.

And today is part one of our two-part interview with Banachek, he's a mentalist and magician

and host of Banachek's mind games live at the stratosphere in Las Vegas.

He's extremely accomplished, he's designed illusions for every magician you've ever heard

of who's alive.

Pretty much.

Today he's going to talk to us about what mentalism is and why it looks like psychic ability,

isn't?

How he became interested in psychokinesis and telepathy, and how he and a friend got involved

with a parapsychology research project called Project Alpha.

Ooh, ooh, ooh, he's also going to tell us how he and his friend fooled the researchers

into thinking they had real psychic ability, what the million dollar challenges, and how

no psychics have yet proven their ability in a scientific setting, and how you can become

emotionally invested in something you know is an illusion.

Hell yeah, bro.

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