The Sound of Young America: Ricky Jay & Brian Copeland

[YoungAmerican]

Ricky Jay is an actor, magician, and scholar. You may remember him from any of the many PT Anderson and David Mamet films in which he's appeared, or you may have seen him slice a watermelon with a thrown playing card. His new book, a collection of broadsides for bizarre performances, is called "Extraordinary Exhibitions."

Brian Copeland is a longtime Bay Area broadcast personality (Mornings on 2, KGO radio), and standup comic. His one-man show, "Not a Geniune Black Man" is the longest running solo show in SF history, and is currently in development for HBO.

Here's the show direct link (http://libsyn.com/media/tsoya/tsoya082005.mp3)

Here's the iTunes link (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73331298)

and our website (http://www.splangy.com/radio/)

[shepdave]

All RIGHT! Now THIS is cool!

In my non-podcasting life I am a professional magician. Ricky Jay performed his show "Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants." He is the awesome king of card magic, and (as Jesse Thorn said in the intro to this) the leading magic historian in the English language, if not the world.

Dave

[YoungAmerican]

Thanks, Dave... hey... want to run my interview with Geoffrey Nunberg (Stanford/Fresh Air linguist) on your show sometime? I'll give it to you if you want it.