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In James Randi's Own Words

World's Greatest Con

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The Importance of Accepting Fake Applications

Steve Shaw, who is now known as banachect the mentalist, and Steve Shaw was from South Africa. And Mike Edwards, I couldn't think about that. I blocked on. Sorry, Mike. Well, yeah. They went in there for the next two or three years on weekends and on holiday periods, never, never being paid a cent, only very expensive. That's all their, their meals and hotels and such. But they got to know full of very well. As it turned out, they were both pushovers because they had believed in this sort of thing. You see, yeah. The kids thought, sorry for him because it was so easy to fool them and

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