A couple days ago, JREF Senior Fellow Jamy Ian Swiss appeared on the talk show HuffPost Live to discuss the skeptical legacy of Harry Houdini, in honor of his 139th birthday. Other guests on the show, hosted by Josh Zepps, included Albert Cadabra from Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Times Square; Buck Wolf, Executive Editor of HuffPost Weird News; and Dorothy Dietrich, director of the Houdini Museum in Scranton, PA. 

Watch the episode below.  

 

D.J. Grothe is the President of the James Randi Educational Foundation