That made me so mad! So out of spite, I decided I was going to be a better magician than he ever was. Right before I left for college, my friend Gordon showed me a card trick and wouldn’t tell me how it was done. What was the first-ever magic trick you learnt? Not that I am anywhere close to that, but it did definitely all started from Penn & Teller. Then later I went to college and realised that it was already too late for me to be the world’s best violinist, too late for me to be the world’s best gymnast, but I had lots of time to become the world’s best magician. I had never felt that punk rock energy that Penn & Teller gave off until I saw their Magic Show Special in 1982. When I was a kid, I had seen magic be amazing and I saw magic be artistic but I had never seen magic be cool. I mean I assume Brian Brushwood would still exist, but I certainly wouldn’t be a touring magician. You can also listen to the past several shows in your browser by clicking on the link at the bottom of each show description.I can say flatly for a fact, if there were no Penn & Teller, there would be no Brian Brushwood. In iTunes, choose "Subscribe to podcast" and paste in " ". Sleep in on Sunday? We approve! Subscribe to Skeptical Sunday as a podcast. We can learn from Brian how we all can be better skeptics: David McRaney interviews him on the You Are Not So Smart podcast in hour two of the show. Brushwood performs his Bizarre Magic stage show across the United States and is the author of six books and has a video on YouTube worth watching called Scams, Sasquatch and the Supernatural.
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Then they talk with FFRF attorney Andrew Seidel about FFRF’s letter of complaint to university athletic departments that hire evangelical chaplains who turn the football field into a mission field. After Freethought Radio, should high school students read books which expose them to different worldviews? Some parents and the principal of a high school in Tallahassee, Florida apparently don’t think so. Gordon Bonnet, author of the Skeptophilia blog begs to differ. Then, Brian Brushwood is a magician, podcaster, author, lecturer and comedian known for the series Scam School, a show where he teaches the audience entertaining tricks at bars so they can “scam” a free drink from their friends. Sadly, this will be the last Skeptical Sunday, at least for the foreseeable future, and I’ve chosen two final segments which eloquently summarize the worldview and values of skepticism, naturalism and humanism that this show has been promoting for the past 3.5 years.įirst, we’ll hear Carl Sagan from what turned out to be his last television interview from the Charlie Rose show on which he talks about what was his final book The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark and lastly we’ll hear Jeremy Beahan’s wonderful “Atheist Sermon.” Īfter honoring the life of famed freethinking civil-rights leader Julian Bond and catching up on state/church news in Texas and New Mexico, Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker treat us to part of John Oliver’s hilarious take-down of greedy churches and evangelists taking unfair advantage of lax IRS codes. Gordon Bonnet of Skeptophilia looks into it. However, not everyone’s gotten the memo that huge conspiracies can’t work and some are speculating that the Zika virus we’re hearing so much about is a hoax and/or a genetically engineered biological weapon. The Skeptic Rogues of the Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe podcast discuss a recent peer-reviewed study that mathematically modeled large conspiracies (involving more than 1000 people) and showed that these are inherently not sustainable and prone to quick failure, even with the most generous assumptions made about the secret-keeping abilities of conspirators.
Abby Hafer champions Darwin’s ideas by discussing her new book, The Not-So-Intelligent Designer: Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does Not. Annie Laurie interviews Dan about his best-selling new book, GOD: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction.
This week Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor celebrate the birthday of Charles Darwin and the 90th birthday poet Philip Appleman (a Darwin scholar) on Freethought Radio.
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