195. Jamy Ian Swiss — The Conjuror’s Conundrum
The Michael Shermer Show
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Sceptic Magicians - I'm a Skeptic Too!
Sceptic magicians like randy, myself, banacheck and others are sometimes asked why they don't just tell people how to do everything. Randy always made the point that if i show you four different ways to band a spoon, and some guy on a trip does thefifth way that we didn't show you, you think, well, i know how it's done, but i don't know how this one was done. And yes, this is exactly what can happen in skepticism. The cheaters, hustlers have a word, have a great term of art for this, a jargon term. They call this being half smart. Your using that narrow piece of information against
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