This is Bob Garfield, and hey, listen up.

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Now then, this week's podcast Extra.

Famed conjurer, illusionist, and even more famously exposer of supernatural fraud,

James Randy died last week at his Florida home at the age of 92.

Co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry,

The Amazing Randy, tirelessly exposed the deceit behind,

as his New York Times obituary summarized,

spoonbending, mind-reading, fortune-telling,

ghost-whispering, water-dowsing,

...