Here’s another example of an interview with someone who fascinates me, because he’s had experiences I’ve never had and is wildly entertaining in discussing them. Todd Robbins is a freak — a sideshow artist and magician who eats light bulbs and pounds nails into his nose for a living. Today on KTRS, we talked about […]
In 1993, CBS News did a “48 Hours” segment on three-card monte games in Times Square, which the city of New York was trying to cut down on. Reporter Richard Schlesinger went with a hidden camera to see a few of the many guys pulling the scam, and then got some insight from my friend […]
The New Yorker recently ran an in-depth piece on magic and magicians, with a heavy emphasis on my friend Jamy Ian Swiss, who is widely acknowledged to be one of the best sleight-of-hand guys in the world. That’s him in the picture above, not being David Blaine. The story takes you from David Copperfield’s massive […]
When I heard that NBC had hired Uri Geller to be a judge on its magic competition show, “Phenomenon,” I knew the perfect person to review it: James Randi. He joined me this afternoon to talk about the show, give kudos to Criss Angel for the way he handled his role as a judge, and […]
Here are two friends I stay in touch with mostly via e-mail, but we always get together once a year at The Amazing Meeting. One is astronomer Phil Plait, the other is magician Jamy Ian Swiss. On Saturday night, Jamy astounded a large audience with his new show, Heavy Mental (not an easy task with […]
Magicians Chris Korn and Eric Mead were on my show this afternoon, part of my continuing effort to prove that you don’t have to see magic to enjoy it. These are two very talented guys — Chris was on with me a couple of years ago doing terrific close-up stuff. He did the “Mondo Magic” […]