An Honest Liar: Exposing Peter Popoff

Season 17 Episode 12

An Honest Liar premieres on PBS’s Independent Lens on Monday, March 28, 2016.

In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary An Honest Liar, magician-turned-debunker James "The Amazing" Randi acknowledges the power of performing illusions on a gullible audience. As magician Penn Jillette tells it here, it's to Randi's credit that he backed away from that power and turned it into a passion for exposing con artists.