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The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss

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Do You Have a Magic Show With Really Good Tricks?

Magic is pretty straightforward. It's subject is actually what you're doing. There's no twists on it. Jerry Seinfeld said, all magic is, here's a chord and now it's gone. You're a jerk. On the other level of, I just got back from my studies in China. Here's where I discovered it also insults them in torturing women in front of mylar. Just tacky, tasteless. But up until now, essentially a masculine art form that is built on some of the bad parts of adolescent boys. And Teller and I became fascinated with, could we do a magic show with really good tricks? "I want to follow the sawing

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