Uri Geller hijacks the New York Times, An Interview with Michael Shermer

World's Greatest Con

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True Crime, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Brian and Justin discuss an article in the New York Times alleging that magic has forgiven it's 50-year grudge with Uri Geller. Considering the subject matter of our Project Alpha investigation... World's Greatest Con disagrees.

Also, an interview with Michael Shermer of Skeptic Magazine discussing the science and shame of being taken in by incorrect information and the legacy of Project Alpha.

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0:00.0	This is World's Greatest Con, I'm Brian Brushwood.
0:06.8	Yuri Geller has two reputations, one as a spoonbender, somebody who can melt metal with
0:15.0	his mind.
0:17.8	That one doesn't scare me, what scares me is his second reputation, as a guy who sews
0:26.7	anyone who calls him a fraud.
0:30.1	I'm not going to call Yuri Geller a fraud, but I will speculate in my heart of hearts
0:37.5	that if he were a fraud, the action of whitewashing his own reputation, 50 years of deceptions,
0:49.8	falsely accepting fraudulent payments for prospecting to find oil that he may or may
0:56.1	not have ever found, the idea of somebody like that being able to get the blessing of
1:03.9	the paper of record, the gray lady herself, the New York Times, if any of that were true,
1:14.2	it just might be.
1:19.2	The World's Greatest Con, hey, it's Brian, gather round all your rogues and scoundrels
1:36.0	because we are joined again by my co-creator and partnering crime, Justin, Robert Young,
1:41.6	Justin, how was your week?
1:44.6	It's been a very interesting and fun week, and we're going to talk about why which is
1:49.9	the news peg of this, but I also want to point out that the bulk of this episode is going
1:56.4	to be a great interview and conversation that we did with Michael Shermer.
2:01.6	It is a great conversation, the opportunity to sit down with one of my intellectual
2:06.4	heroes was fantastic and it seems like he's very appreciative of our work and we're going
2:12.6	to get to that, but first bit of news, a news about the news, which for a journalism
2:19.9	major is my favorite kind, whenever we can discuss journalism as the main character of
2:25.4	the story.
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