
363 - Landed In Marshmallows
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
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The Vices and Eric Sibayo's Story
When Eric Houdini was nine years old, he discovered the circus and basically he's sold. Even as a child, there are already glimpses of Eric's future greatness. In 1887, when Eric is 13, the family relocates to New York City,. He buys an autobiography of a famous French magician named Robert Houdin. And by the time he's 17, he teams up with a few friends and he creates the act, The Brothers Houdini which is Houdin's name with an eye at the end.
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