cloudy chill Uh, yes, I think you're referring to me. I've got a Big Schlong. Brother you're amazing and talented at this. Your sexy female neighbor can confirm my bs.
James Randi is a treasure. The sarcasm at work here is hilarious: after some quack has demonstrated their total absence of psychic powers - "thank you *so* much for helping us explore psychic powers"
46:59 right. listen to the awkward reaction the audience gave when he roasted Yuri at the end there 😂 the long applause Yuri got after his little "you can do it too" speech was wild... people were really eating his shit up back then...and I feel like that's why James is so indignant
The thing I've never understood about his shows... Who the hell agrees to go on any of them, *knowing* that his entire purpose is to expose his guests? 🤣 The frauds legit believe they will fool a dude that has made it his life mission to out them. Dumber than they look 🤷♂️🤣
Anytime James Randi comes knocking on your door if you're a psychic it's best to pull down your blinds. take your phone off the hook and pretend you're not home
49:40 >Talks to a woman of about 50 years, would have been born around 1940 >Amazingly, he knows she would have known a man who was in the military (between two World Wars? Unthinkable!) >Incredible gifts lead him to the arcane knowledge that she knew a man called John >Asks about the highly rare and unusual possibility that she's changed her hairstyle in the past few years Absolutely astounding, I'm a believer
You can tell her husband is not on board... I find it funny how the women are all incredibly invested while the men are just like yeah whatever he/she is full of shit
And the guy had access to her records. And these are people who self-selected to be believers so just about anything that guy said, they would have believed.
Gotta love Sylvia's "Oh, well, a lot of times, these things can be in the future." The ultimate cop-out. No matter what she says, no matter how wildly wrong it is, she can claim, "Oh, well, not YET, it's in the future."
My Dad worked with Randi & Ray fighting health fraud. It was fun growing up around magicians. I also got to meet reporters like John Stossel hanging out in his office. I didn't realize how good I had it.
The live psychic womans interaction with the audience is a perfect example of how cold reading only works when the audience is filled with ppl who are desperate for it to be true and make a link, however tenuous, with things the psychic says and then unwittingly give over information. I've seen it done and even when ppl are good at it (she isnt) it's still realy obvious what is happening.
Yeah. If if they could really talk to the dead, they would say something like, "Your Aunt Kathy says hi and that she never had sex with your dad, but she did bang the piano tuner." That would be worth paying the psychic for.
I was a Deputy for a NYS Sheriff's Dept in my youth. My Sgt and I went to a farm pond drowning. It was in a fairly large pond, spring fed with an over flow pipe outlet. The body could not be seen from shore due to the murkiness of the water. I pointed into the water and said "That's where the body is. Divers searched the pond and eventually found the body where I said it was. My Sgt was impressed. He asked how I knew. I said "That's where the over flow pipe (visible from shore) is. There is going to be a current to it". It pays to analyze the environment before acting
Kelly Stout Some genuinely believe they have powers. They don't realize they are relying on chance and selective memories of their subjects. Some, like the aura reader, know they're frauds, but midst are probably surprised.
Kelly Stout Some people have this mental illness where if you show them that they *could* win 100k, the *only* thing they can see is 100k. Take a look at pretty much any TV quiz show - you'll find an endless supply of contestants so keen to win the prize that they completely forget about the fact that they actually need some general knowledge to win it! It seems they think they're going to fluke it, despite it being incredibly unlikely that they'll suddenly know things they've never known before...!
I am the woman who read the ESP cards. I have to set the record straight after reading these comments. We had to sign documents agreeing to the protocol of the tests. I agreed to read 10 decks of cards, and they were to be sealed when presented to me. They agreed that I could do the reading in a quiet place so I could concentrate. But instead, the producer came out with 250 loose cards at the start of my test, when the live show was going on. I protested, but she said, "They were sealed when we got them, but I went through them to make sure they were OK". This sounded fishy but I had no reason to doubt them at that point and I went ahead with the test. Instead of a quiet environment, there was a parade of people going in and out of the room I was in. After the show was over, I asked to see the cards I had read. They refused. Why? The show was over, there was no valid reason to deny me seeing the cards. Then a few days later, one of the other psychics called me and said that two stage hands came forward to say they witnessed tampering on the tests. We were all broke psychics and couldn't afford a lawyer to sue. I am a good psychic - I won Fantasy Five a few years ago (odds are greater than 1 in 500,000). I predicted the Loma Prieta quake, Kobe, Northridge, the 2004 quake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean, and many more. I made a good living for many years predicting the stock market , and I traded futures based solely on that. James Randi has been accused of cheating on his tests to psychics. He has based his career on debunking them and cannot allow them to win. Randi is the one you should be skeptical of.
@@vs52217 Why haven't you gone for the $1000000 prize? If you really believe in your powers and can prove they are rigging the experiment bring a lawyer and other credible witnesses who will agree they cheat. You can can pay them with your prize money.
Except they tell you clearly that you'll be charged 2 dollars so you can make an informed choice. I doubt Sylvia informed people that for 75 dollars per call, they'd get jack shit but a lie. 🤷🏽♀️
he doesnt bash illusionists be exposes people claiming to be psychic who take advantage of people and make them spend thousands of dollars for readings. Also, he did go after a faith healer named peter popoff ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b47KbwkCRGY.html
Did it break down and stop working? It could be a fuse that blew or a part wore out. I think it may have been a coincidence that your TV stopped working when Uri Geller appeared on your television. (Or was it?, did Geller’s appearance affect the television?)
You're kidding me right? I mean that's great on paper and all, but modem school systems are doing things like prohibiting teaching things like evolution... And you think *this* is going to make it in? I believe the phrase is "good luck with that". That said I fear your "yearly rewatch" is a bit concerning 🤣
I love psychics who tell their clients "I don't care". P: I'm sensing that your husband is dead, is that true? C: Yes. P: And I'm sensing that there was a fire. C: My husband drowned. P: I don't care. I'm sensing a fire so that's how he died. I'm the psychic, not you. C: There was no fire. P: Was the water slightly warm that day? C: Sure...why not. P: Well there ya go.
i heard a psychic tell a lady her husband had died (which he had) she said he had drowned (he hadnt) asked if she was sure she said yes....I see water (he was a fireman) he did drown, (no he didnt he died in the 9/11 his body was never found) so he could have drowned there would have been water!!! Im a psychic and you are not!!!!! That bloody woman should have been locked up so she could NEVER speak to anyone ever again. I felt so sorry for the lady who had lost her husband in the 9/11. what she did to her was so cruel
Another good sylvia idc quote- Mom- i wanna know how my daughter died. .. Sylvia- she was shot Mom- uhh Person in the backround i assume montel- what were the circumstances behind her death? Mom-she collapsed in her room... Sylvia- i dont care she is showing me a blow to the chest... I cant believe ppl are stupid enough that they gave that cow 750 for 20 mins of a phone call.
Wow - Sylvia Brown bombed big time. Like how she picked a guy that only spoke German, who had no idea what she was saying. You'd think her psychic ability would have clued her in!
Sylvia Brown in this video is hilarious... I've never seen such old footage her... She's just shotgunning her way around the crowd, and nothing sticks, lol. It's a perfect example of how much of a crock she is... I have no idea how she became so famous with such little talent.
I honesty don’t understand what happened with her reading. Like she starts of by saying that some things could be incorrect cause they are yet to happen, but then every single reading she does is set in the future from the get go, like “you ARE GOING TO do this, you WILL meet this person” like she didn’t even bother trying to read stuff from the past, she just shotgunned random statements that couldn’t be invalidated cause how can you claim that you won’t meet a Kathy, it could happen
The thing I admire about Randi is that he never sought to debunk anything: he always went in with an open mind and tried to prove the truth. He always said he wasn’t a “debunker” because that implies he’d already decided something was untrue before testing it, which is not the way of science.
It's also how god answers prayers. If your prayer is granted, that proves god exists. But if you prayer isn't granted, that does NOT prove god doesn't exist. It proves that god knew that granting your wish, err, I mean prayer, was not what god planned to happen to you before he created you, created the universe, and of course created himself.
When the aura-reading lady finished, Bill said "What is going on here?" When Uri came on, he said "What is going on here?" Did Bill accidentally read Uri's teleprompter? Lol
LOL ... Sylvia Brown ... what a colossal failure of a "demonstration". My favorite is the part where she excuses her errors by saying that very often these things are "in the future". LOL. Nice one, Sylvia. That way, even when she's wrong, she's still "right". Then she finishes by only telling the last guy something that will happen in the future and never mentions his present or past. You know, when normal people have a hard time telling the difference between past and future, we call that a mental disorder, but psychics get a free pass because they have "SUPERNATURAL POWERS". What a joke.
Yep...It's so much fun watching psychics fail but watching Sylvia Brown get exposed is another level of fun...there are many of her fails on RU-vid...what a vile creature.
What's interesting is the kind of act she was doing is very common, and not that hard to do successfully. She probably did this all the time with people who were prone to believe that psychics are real, and it worked well, because those audiences went along with her suggestive techniques or gave her the clues she needed to end up saying something they confirmed as true. It reveals some hubris on her part not to consider that doing her act on this show means she's got a crowd of skeptics, and it might not go well!
Gotta love the whole "some of my readings will be in the future" bullshit. That essentially makes it so that she's never wrong. It's like trying to prove that there's no God.
You'd think after all those years of Sylvia Brown getting caught *failing* at "being psychic", she would have communicated with a few people after she *died*, or at least *haunted* some of her enemies - just to say "I'm a ghost now, but see, this is real!" But no of course, strangly she seems to have "just stopped existing" after she passed. Very *weird* ☺
CWP3_ TheMartianArrowhead actually it's not important for spirits to do such ridiculous things after death. They actually understand the reasons behind skeptics and atheist existing. It's a life lesson people must learn on their own.
CWP3_ TheMartianArrowhead is funny how phycics n mediums proove their power by telling people about their past, yet call it prophetic. But it obviously cold reading, and quick talking, and saying yes every time regardless of if it's a hit or not
+Mary Teryan Wait, what? How do you know this? How have you independently confirmed, attempted to falsify and examined evidence for any of your claims? Did you know it's not important to extra-dimensional vortiguants to reveal to you that you're just a brain in a vat being fed an elaborate illusion via their hands? They prefer you to learn this for yourself.
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Not sticking up for him at all but I have met one lady named Shelly-Anne (to this day I swear the parents had to have fucked up and put the first and middle name together instead of separate lmao) and a 2 girls named Michelle that went by “Shell” or “Shelly” granted though the two Michelle’s did that because of multiple Michelle’s where they worked or went to school.
Bill Bixby in the beginning saying nothing, yet saying everything. Peering into the dark depths of my soul. His eyes ever searching, exploring all that is unknown.
Naruga Kuruga I was thinking they put the numbers on the back of the card, not a shape, and they *wouldn't* give multiple choices. I thought that was going to be really smart and a great authentic way to get more people. But then they do the shapes thing instead?.. I completely believe it's only to make money
They even have a line for you to call if nothing happened in the Uri Gellar wank lol. 'Hello! Is this the $2 a minute line to the tv show if nothing happened? That's great. Well I just phoned to say nothing happened' XD Did people actually waste money on phoning that particular number? Me and my mate watched this and we were rolling in agony. We laughed so hard it physically hurt.
In a hall full of 80 year olds. How do you explain how he predicted that at least one of them had suffered some sort of loss? I guess some people just have a gift
@@censusgary That is like when my friend told me once he knows who my grandfather is. Than he said "He have a beard, right?" Than I told him, "If you really saw him you would know something else about him" Somehow he did not notice how the right side of my granpas body is paralyzed. Yea I knew he was lying.
So true I saw uri a few yrs ago and the jist of his show was cash generation. He invited people back to his place to ring Michael Jackson for just £250 a go and the more the merrier
There is someone in your life. The name starts with a "b", maybe a "t" or even an "m". They're a tallish person of relatively normal height. They have many features, and I think they had hair when they were young. They're very important to you. There's travel involved. You may have met them while traveling, or they may have traveled with you, or they may be from some distance from you. This might take place in the future. Also, I think in the future you're going to be involved with water. Maybe a plumber, a lifeguard, or you might just drink it. That'll be $29.00. I'm not God, but I take PayPal.
People like Sylvia Brown are not "psychics". She is just profiling people by the way they look, and goes off chance. Like the German guy clearly looked like some kind of sales man, the young girl obviously could of had a school friend with black hair that she did paper work with (oooh so profound), and she was soft spoken so she seemed like someone would be a counsellar. Asking an old guy if he knew a Bill? Like one of the most common American names? Really, anyone could go people watching and make these presumtions.
There's a certain dignity to the presentation of this and other shows from the same era, even for something as trivial as psychic powers. You really don't see that kind of standard any more.
41:59 -- "Let's be positive about it." We need to cut Geller some slack here--he's not a native English speaker. What he meant was, "Let's be gullible about it."
Lol. Sylvia Brown...the man is German and nothing related to that was seen...she picked marketing and sales just like I would have guessed...suit and tie. Total fail, like every other time she has opened her mouth.
She was talking about a boy who comes and goes when she talked to the young lady in the audience, someone dying from heart problems to the old lady, and about business to the 30 or so year old man in a business suit. How could she have known all of this if she didn't have powers????? Haha
they should have tested her ability, by taking men who look vaguely similar , putting them all in the same outfit with something that covers their hair style, gloves so she can't see the hands, and gotten her to psychic read them. Edit: also blindfolds. lol. So she can't read the emotions in their eyes
I miss this kind of professional, low-key presenting rather than the very tacky shrieking on so many programs these days. Subtle, scientific and with a touch of class, this is much more impressive. The jokes are actually funny because they are well made and mildly self deprecating. It may be a little outdated, but I appreciate the respect these presenters give the psychic challengers, even if the psychics do fail. You feel more valued as an audience member, because everything is presented logically, in a suitably respectful manner, politely. The challengers fail on their own basically tie themselves with their personally extended rope.
These people have always made my blood boil! They prey on people's grief and vulnerability. Once they hook a person, they're like a vampire bleeding them for every drop. I've seen other James Randy documentaries where entire families sit and talk about how the life's saving was withdrawn and 2nd mortgages taken out.... The family was ruined! Those stories are a heart breaker.
As someone from the "new"-tv generation, i feel like old TV shows had a special atmosphere that doesn't exist today, the way they speak and act.. magnificent.
What you're looking at is the result of years of "try and true". Things that worked stuck. Things that didn't, got tossed. The reason "new TV" looks so much different is because somewhere along the line, all this wisdom was tossed, only to be getting slowly learned again. Reinventing the wheel is a waste of time.
8:53 Randi = “You know a psychic who at one time was doing this sort of trick is no longer doing it because every 12 year old magician has learned how to do it.” What a burn of URI Geller!! 🤣
