Georg Complains: Psychics 

Read the title as "Georg Complains: Physics" as if he'd become incredibly upset by the laws of physics recently lol.

"A regular evil Mike Stoklasa" This implies the Mike Stoklasa from Red Letter Media is somehow the GOOD one. Have you seen the shit he's done to Rich Evans?

My former boss was a psychic. He told me one day last year that I was going to have a financial struggle in the near future. Damned if he wasn’t correct. I got laid off two days after he pointed out my future. Talk about creepy accuracy.

Orson Welles learned the ability of cold reading, but stopped using it immediately when he started to realize things about people that he practiced on, without understanding why. Not because he was afraid that he might have paranormal powers, but because he was afraid that he was cold reading unconsciously, which is a common result of frequent cold reading and often leads to delusions of having paranormal powers.

"What if Sherlock Holmes was shit at making his conclusions?" - The entire premise of psychics.

Regular Mike Stoklasa has been scamming a old man from his savings with promises of being able to fix his vhs player so he can watch nightcourt. Imagine what Evil Mike Stoklasa is capable of.

I believe that the job of "Evil Mike Stoklasa" has been filled.

I think you will appreciate this anecdote Georg. So a work colleague of mine went to see a psychic and at the last minute decided to bring a friend. When she arrived the psychic said "Oh! I didn't expect two of you". If that had happened to me, I would have turned around, got in the car and drove away.

“I shall simply say that those who offer false consolation are false friends.” - Christopher Hitchens

Someday I expect Georg's video to just be 20 minutes of him face-planted and snoring, next to an overturned lava lamp and an empty bottle of whiskey.

Happy birthday to you too

We had a popular show here in NZ called "Sensing Murder" (or as I liked to call it, Sensing Bullshit). It was a state funded program that involved re-opening unsolved cold cases, and brining in local celebrity Psychics to see if they could shed any light. It was straight up exploitation of vulnerable victims, still looking for closure. The problem with this show, is that it was so well done, that it had many advocates, and so criticizing it was almost taboo, in the sense that you could esily find yourself accused of being a closed minded insensitive asshole. I always found such opinions to be the height of irony, but some battles are just not worth fighting, and are even worse than a zero sum game. I was very happy when the show finally ended, and always enjoyed TV shows like "Lie to Me" and "The Mentalist" which often did a great job of exposing the bullshit of these exploitative con artists.

I like psychics in movies. They're brought in when the director is out of ideas and the main character needs to suddenly be told what to do next or where to be, even though it doesn't make sense. All prophesies by psychics in movies always come true, which is also incredibly convenient for the MC.

“Who shot JFK? Where do all my socks go?” I cannot imagine any other creator on RU-vid who could have those two questions back to back and have them be sensible in context.

Some years ago I went with my sister and friends on a "ghost tour" in a local town that has lots of American Civil War history. One of those things where the "ghost hunters" walk you around the town and show you "haunted" buildings and sites. It was just for fun as far as I was concerned, but I was surprised at what a thriving business this was for these guys. People moving into old houses and properties would pay these dudes good money to investigate possible paranormal activity, which of course, they would sometimes "find". He took us into his office, where he and his partner had all kinds of odd electronic equipment, old 1970s reel-to-reel tape decks, oscilloscopes, and a bunch of homemade stuff like an "energy detector" that was like a couple of square planar antennae made with tinfoil on metal rods. It was total BS, of course, but I thought the old analog electronics was cool, anyway. Of course my sister and her friend got caught up in the ghost stories and were terrified. For me it felt like being in an episode of In Search of with Leonard Nimoy in the 70s.

"An evil Mike Stoklasa..." The algorithm is beginning to show its pattern to me...

I was watching a documentary series about psychics. There was this woman who would let spirits possess her and speak in a voice, as if it was the spirit talking to her. At some point, she was talking to a guy who had a german father and she starts saying "bita-bita, does that mean anything to you?" and the guy says yes, that's "father" in german. Of course, she could have googled that. The funny part is, that's where the conversation ended. The spirit of his dead father supposedly came into the room and the son "felt him" or whatnot. At that point I said to myself, I bet if it was an english speaking ghost, it would have a whole conversation with his son. Lo and behold, not a few minutes later and there's another american family whose dead father was also american and only spoke english. That ghost had an entire conversation with his family. The german ghost, conveniently only said one word through the non-german speaking psychic. The american ghost had a whole conversation through the same psychic. Man, I fucking hate these people so much. Another funny one is there's this channel here on youtube called "jubilee". They have a series where they get I think six or seven people who all belong to a certain group (they're all gay, they're all jews, they're all fans of the same TV show, they're all parents and so on and so forth) except for one of them. They have to ask each other questions and every few minutes will vote one out. The one that they think is the mole (not the gay guy, not the jew, not the fan of that TV show etc). If they manage to find him, the remaining ones win a money prize. If they don't and the mole is still among them, he or she gets all the money. Generally, they find the mole like 9 out of 10 times. It's very rare that the mole will manage to make it to the last round where there's like 3 or 4 people left. Well in one of these episodes the theme was "psychics" and one of them wasn't one (or, he wasn't LYING about being one like they do, more accurately). They failed to find her (I think it was a woman) and she won the money. Keep in mind, some of the groups are children who are all fans of a certain band or cartoon show or whatever, and those kids still manage to find out the mole among them. But not the fucking psychics! It was hilarious.

If they had the capability and interest in coming up with detailed lore in how the afterlife functions they wouldn't be "working" as psychics, they'd be writing novels, or just go all the way in and properly start an actual cult.

I would love to see a super intelligent kid being brought to a psychic to get in touch with their recently departed professor parent, and asking the psychic some deep scientific ideas that they'll be entirely unprepared for.

Now you did it, Georg, no one will invite you to a Seance party

“We’re so sorry, uncle Albert. We’re so sorry if we caused you any pain.”

I wanna see a TV show where regular "good" Mike Stoklasa drives around town & snatches up people to tell them about Star Trek TNG 🤘😎🤘

"Notice: due to unforeseen circumstances, there will be no psychic readings today, we apologise for any future inconveniences."

I'm picking up strong vibrations that Georg will soon be joining Red Letter Media

As a magician, "psychics" have always bothered me. I have to be 100% accurate in my predictions and these people only have to be 30% correct to be deemed a miracle. Maybe I'm just working too hard lol ;)

4:55 "Evil Mike Stoklasa"? Isn't Mike Stoklasa already evil?

There are also some things psychics can say which sound very specific, but which are likely to apply to lots of people, including "a box of old photographs, most not in albums", "a drawer that is stuck or doesn't slide properly", "a white car", and "keys, but you don't remember what they open". People also tend to remember what a psychic said as being more specific than it really was. So if a psychic says "I'm sensing some sort of ongoing conflict with an older person", they might say "well how did they know that I fought with my father over going to college?"

imagine dying getting up to the pearly gates and St peter looks at you and says '' I sense you have suffered a loss is it a sadness or something similar . Does your name begin with a T I'm seeing a T here or maybe its one of the other 26 letters ''

Great complainy video. Loved that one of my favourite people, James "the Amazing" Randy, got a guernsey. RIP Mr Randy, you left the planet too soon.

I knew you'd upload this.

lmao "a regular evil Mike Stoklasa"

It's not gravity that keeps him here, it has more to do with electromagnetic energy which allows them to maintain their position on earth. Obviously. Haven't you ever seen ghost hunter shows? They always have electromagnetism detectors, and those devices pick up ghost activity. It's really simple.

Hang in there 😉 love. Just got home from work, and I'm binge watching your channel. Thanks for the escape. Much appreciated.

Always happy to see a notification that you’ve uploaded a new video. Always fascinating topics hilariously discussed.

The ending had me thinking of a long line of dead people redoing the I Love Lucy translation skit.

SUPERB. My thoughts exactly and so many more that I will lovingly adopt.

As always, a delight to have a video from you.

I think the 'world building' not being completed works to the advantage of the 'psychic'. The customer has to bring their own ideas to the the table which gets them a little invested in the idea straight away.

This went a bit "Just a Thought" towards the end there, got a bit nostalgic for the stop-motion frame rates and high paced ranting

Thanks, Georg! Happy Birthday to you, as well!

I took a girl to a tarot reader on a date once in Sedona, AZ. The psychic told the girl she loved to travel (a cliche) and then me, that I would be successful at business. Go figure that a girl would want to travel and a guy wants to make money lol. It was clearly not paranormal but it gave us a lot to talk about the rest of the date, you basically pay someone to relentlessly compliment you, bullshit and grief conmen aside.

The ending made me laugh so much

Love your channel bro -- good work! :-) Keep it up!

So many excellent questions were asked in that last section

Such wise questions.

Aw, this actually was uploaded on my birthday! Thanks, Georg!

"Sheisters" LOL, that world alone made it already worth to watch this vid

'socrates, what do you think about bitcoin?' this is where i lost it.

this is the culmination of everything your show was meant to be, you can retire, this is perfect. "Socrates what do you think of bitcoin?" like how do you top the savage dismantling of the afterlife/spirit domain? 😂

It really is my birthday today! Amazing! And Thanks!

Your best work yet.

Love you're channel and videos

Thank you! It was a very nice birthday.

"... AND English!" Is a fucking amazing joke Georg.

GRS. Ameobi with souls. Classic. Witty, insightful and thought provoking as always.

4:54 "A regular evil Mike Stoklasa" - That got a good chuckle out of me.

I remember a documentary with Derek Ogilvie - aka The Baby Mind Reader - when he took the James Randi challenge. He failed to prove his psychic powers in every test devised for him, but there was a telling moment when he was left alone with a baby and became frustrated as the infuriating infant wouldn't talk to him. But as soon as the baby's nanny entered the room, suddenly he was getting all sorts of vibes. Anyway, it ended with him getting a brainscan showing he did have slightly higher than normal activity in the bit of the brain responsible for communication. He took this as proof of his powers - I took it as proof that he's just really good at reading body language.

Wait this was on my birthday! Thank you for the present!

Every video a treasure

That was a deep loving intro. Happy whatever to you or whoever too. Also I thought the video was about physics lol

I like to knock on a psychics door. And if they ask "Who is it?" I leave.

I love your channel.

My favourite psychic is Raymond Day from the hit BBC Scotland show Paraside. He’s a bit brutal but at least he’s honest.

This is the best content I've seen on yt which is like a mix up of Garth meringues dark place bts Charlie brookers screen whipe

It's my birthday in 2 hours! Thanks, Georg!

Hey! That one psychic lady is the Sam lady who starred in that "Walls Fall Out" music video that you can watch here on RU-vid. So cool.

God I love your wit. You sir are sharp as a nail 😅

Good stuff as always

I didn’t know I needed this video…

"an evil Mike Stocklasa" ..brilliant!

I loved GRS' ruminations on the nature of spirits

I knew you were going to release this video.

I’m a psychic. I foresaw myself laughing during this video once I clicked on it.

Hey thanks for the birthday wishes man

YES I NEEDED THIS

My mom died in 2013. I don’t believe she’s watching over me. I hope if there’s a afterlife that she is having more fun than watching me brush my teeth and sit in traffic all day. The afterlife has got to be more entertaining than this one or I’m with Georg… can I just be dead

You have asked all my questions...

You're my favourite Georg

I knew you were going to post this

Masterpiece

Thank you

:D That was great! I laught out loud. Thanks!

"...a regular evil Mike Stoklasa". I'm ded.

"I've got access to every dead person who ever existed." This is the premise of Necroscope.

Georg hits on the premise of the Necroscope book series

"I am being contacted by... They ate food... And breathed oxygen... They had letters in their name... And was a baby at one point..."

Thanks again

Anyone that makes money on "talking to ghosts" should be ashamed of themselves.

I used to do this in highschool and college as a party trick. It's ridiculously easy to surprise and impress people by making a bunch of broad, general statements followed by a few specific, informed guesses.

Comment for boosting the algorithm. Great, amazing content, as usual.

mike stoklasa

Man this video made my day. 🍻

"a regular, evil Mike Stoklasa" I screamed 🤣

This guy is the best guy on the internet!

So many questions.

I'm not psychic about other people, just myself. I always know what I'm thinking. It's weird and quite frankly an oppressive slog of a life, constantly knowing exactly what I'm thinking at all times.

The funny thing about prophecies and psychics is that not only do they keep it infuriatingly vague, it's that vagueness that makes it so compelling. And since they rarely set deadlines, you can have a vague claim and the longer it takes for it to be fulfilled then makes it even more incredible. The psychic could say "I see you'll have trouble with the lower regions the body body."... 50 years later that person has trouble with his knees. He thinks back to that prediction and wonders "how on earth could she have known?!" Not realizing that eventually most people have stiff joints and it could just as easily have been an ingrown toenail or erectile dysfunction and it would still fit the prediction. Heck, his son could go to war and have his legs blown off and it would still fit the prediction. If a psychic does give a deadline or a specific. It's always wrapped up with details of stuff that the target can fail to do. So if it doesn't come true, then it's never the fault of the prediction. Oh and that's not even mentioning that a willing target will conveniently forget all the misses and duds in the reading. So they only remember where she got it correct, not counting ahe probably got there by essentially playing battleship with a mind that wants to lose. Oh the money one could make if it wasn't for these pesky morals I was brought up with.

I had a feeling you'd make a video like this

it's 2:15 am where i live and these are the questions i ask myself every time i can't sleep.

i had a feeling you'd upload this video 0 _ 0