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Christmas Special 2017: The Science of Magic

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Magic Tricks Become Ideas of Paranormal Abilities?

Magicians pretend that the things are trickery, but they have genuine magical abilities. They'll talk about mirrors and smoke, but it's not that they actually can make objects appear and disappear with the power of their mind. Andi i more magicians an ican have an argument over the noseyes, they're so needy. But i think tht the audience is absolutely complicit in it, and they're happy to go along with that. Where the rules start to change is when it starts to get really interesting,. which is where either the pseudo psychic world, the spiritualist world, or the mental ism comes into play. That becomes a slightly more dangerous world, because the power

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