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Friendly Atheist Podcast

Ep. 12 - TAM2014 - James Randi And Banacheck

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2014

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

James Randi is the legendary investigator of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims and the namesake of the James Randi Educational Foundation. Banachek is the mentalist who created the "bullet catch" trick made famous by Penn & Teller and the director of JREF's One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge. Jessica spoke with them about the difficulties of testing so-called supernatural powers, performing mentalism and fooling people, and what they still love about watching magic shows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And thanks to The Sims, inspiration is just one game and one spark away.

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Ready to spark something? Download The Sims 4 and play for free. I'm Hemmant Metta. This is Jessica Blumky and you're listening to the

1:08.0

podcast for friendly atheist.com. Jessica recently went to the amazing meeting, a sceptics conference in Las Vegas

1:15.4

where she had the chance to talk to a number of amazing people.

1:18.6

Up for this episode I was joined by the amazing James Randy himself and renowned

1:23.6

mentalist Banachak. We talked about the million dollar

1:26.4

challenge and the difficulties of testing various so-called

1:29.6

powers, the difficulties of performing mentalism and

1:32.4

fooling people without allowing them to believe that

1:35.0

psychics are real and what they still enjoy about watching magic shows.

1:40.6

Welcome to the podcast for the friendly atheist. This is Jessica Blumkey and we're coming to you from the amazing meeting 2014.

1:47.0

I'm joined today by the Amazing Randy and with Bantam check and welcome gentlemen.

1:52.0

Thank you for having us.

1:53.2

Good to be here.

1:54.2

All right.

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