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The Carson Podcast

James Randi

The Carson Podcast

Mark Malkoff

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2014

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Magician and skeptic, James Randi, joins Mark to discuss Uri Geller’s infamous Tonight Show appearance, Johnny’s similar interest in debunking psychics and televangelists, and his phone calls with Johnny post retirement.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I knew this is where comedy was.

0:05.0

Goni Carson changed my life twice.

0:08.0

It was just like a dream. It was just like everything I had worked for

0:12.0

and dreamed about has come to fruition.

0:14.6

They said Johnny fell overlapping.

0:17.6

It makes me so happy.

0:19.4

I made him laugh.

0:20.3

But with Johnny, you knew you had a kid audience and you could really go great.

0:25.1

My wife with the curtain all held real loose backstage.

0:27.3

People were running up and she said, go back out, go back out, go back out.

0:30.1

Johnny, you want you back.

0:31.1

I walked back through the curtain very calm and Johnny, I took about

0:34.0

and Johnny put that little circle up with the finger and I knew I am Mark Malkoff. This week our guest is Magician and Skeptic James Randy, also known as The Amazing Randy.

0:57.0

James Randy talked to me via Skype from his home in Plantation Florida.

1:01.0

Enjoy.

1:02.0

James Randy, thanks for being here. Florida. some might say no no no no I'm still a magician you are you're still a magician okay I read online you know how accurate that can be that you retired but that is not true

1:20.8

well you don't retire from doing something like that.

1:24.4

It sort of in the DNA, I think.

1:26.8

Okay, so you are a current magician.

1:30.2

Some might say skeptic investigator, is that accurate?

1:34.1

What do you call yourself?

1:35.6

I'm skeptical investigator.

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