我对神奇兰迪的回忆：第一部分

Editor’ note: This is the first installment of a two-part article. The second installment will appear in the May/June 2026 issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER. Banachek originally wrote this tribute to James “The Amazing” Randi for The International Brotherhood of Magicians. We are thankful that he let us publish it here as well. It was July 11, 1974, and I was fourteen years old. My two younger siblings and I had been abandoned by our mother in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. At 7:30 p.m. we were sitting by the radio in rapt anticipation. We were listen- ing to Deadline Thursday Night. The show was broadcast on Cape Town's Springbok Radio, which, although now gone, was South Africa’s first commercial radio station. …