I'm Getting Something About My Dad's Watch

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i spent an entire day with james van progu this was in, i ninetee, 94. For a i was the unsolved mysteries chop. And every one of the guys that van produc tes watch exactly. He kept saying, i'm getting something about a watch. I thought, well, i have my dad's watch and so on. These are kind of true. Its is kind of true for most people. Ah, it's ni any the doctri to talk you out of it. Yoem. It's another interesting debate in atheist circles.

The most fundamental lesson that all magicians learn is that seeing is not believing. In episode 195, Michael speaks with internationally acclaimed sleight-of-hand artist and 35-year activist for scientific skepticism, Jamy Ian Swiss, about his lively, personal book, The Conjuror’s Conundrum, that takes readers on a magical mystery tour of the longstanding connection between magic and skepticism. Shermer and Swiss discuss: Swiss’s first encounter with fraud, the paranormal and supernatural, magic and mentalism, hot/cold/universal readings, pychics, talking to the dead, James van Praagh, belief, the afterlife, “the amazing” Kreskin, the Alpha Project, and more…