Magic - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 5/13/26

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🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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George Noory and psychologist Dr. Gustav Kuhn explore how magic can be used to understand the human mind, why people are easily deceived by magic tricks, and how the brain processes the illusions that it sees.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.4	Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on IHeart Radio.
0:09.4	And welcome back to coast to coast.
0:11.2	George Norrie with you, Dr. Gustav Kuhn, with us, a cognitive psychologist with an unusual
0:16.6	background before becoming an academic.
0:19.9	He worked as a semi-professional magician, and he now
0:23.1	directs the magic lab, which stands for mind, attention, and general illusionary cognition
0:29.1	at the University of Plymouth, which is on the southwest coast of England, where his research
0:34.3	uses magic as a powerful tool for uncovering the secrets of the human mind.
0:39.2	As one of the leading researchers in the science of magic,
0:42.9	Dr. Kuhn works across disciples and disciplines to explore why our minds are so easily deceived
0:49.4	into experiencing events that seem impossible.
0:53.1	His book is called Experiencing the Impossible.
0:55.9	His website is linked up at coast-to-coast-a-m.com.
0:59.3	Dr. Coon, welcome to the program.
1:02.3	Hello.
1:03.8	Looking forward to this.
1:04.8	How did you get involved in magic in the first place?
1:08.2	Well, like quite a lot of magicians,
1:10.1	my passion for magic started as a teenager.
1:12.5	I sort of hung out with a friend
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