In James Randi's Own Words

World's Greatest Con

Dog And Pony Show Audio

True Crime, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

A funny thing happened as we finished our season. We asked for listeners to unearth an old podcast WGC co-creator Justin Robert Young did with James Randi and it was indeed found. But one episode surprised us... James Randi in his own words describing Project Alpha in 2008.

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0:00.0	This is World's Greatest Con.
0:03.0	I'm Brian Brushwood.
0:07.0	Oh, hello, beautiful rogues.
0:11.0	Yes, we're here again, because it turns out there's even more of the story to share.
0:17.0	Last week we did a Q&A with Justin Robert Young, my co-creator on this very project.
0:23.0	And since then, we've got news.
0:27.0	Buckle up.
0:28.0	We're going to travel 15 years into the past.
0:31.0	Because it turns out there's one more voice we haven't heard from yet.
0:34.0	One more part of the story in what just might be.
0:40.0	The World's Greatest Con.
0:58.0	I'm live in studio again with my co-creator Justin Robert Young, how you doing Justin?
1:04.0	Oh, Brian, I'm doing fantastic.
1:06.0	You know, strange things happen from time to time.
1:09.0	So a funny thing about the internet is sometimes when you wish for a thing, it just appears.
1:15.0	And we were wishing for the back catalog of the amazing show that you did with James Randy.
1:20.0	Yeah, I had no idea where it was.
1:24.0	It still does live in the server that we uploaded it.
1:28.0	The RSS feed has since fallen to pot.
1:31.0	But there are links that were sent to me.
1:35.0	A few people downloaded them as they were, as they were published.
1:39.0	And I got Dropbox folders.
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