always keep your mind open but keep doubt closer ps a man claimed his challenge for money.... he proved it and then.. didnt take the money..... some computer to human telepathy... thing
@@HarmonRAB-hp4nk No, that did not happen. Follow your own advice. Actually, don't follow that advice. Keep doubt closer than your own open mind? That makes zero sense.
@@HarmonRAB-hp4nkno there was a guy that could read vinyl records by looking at the grooves. He refused the reward because he just practiced really hard and wasn’t psychic
I saw this in real time. I had to have been, like, four or five. I was initially impressed with the guy dressed like a superhero, and mad at the small man in the suit, but by the end, I realized that adults can be trickers, and a certain amount of skepticism can keep you safe. Thank you, James Randi, for the lesson. RIP
That's why I admire people like Paul Daniels and Derrin Brown who can do all of these "Psychic" tricks (and will do them under laboratory conditions) and openly say it is a trick/illusion . Derrin Brown has even fooled "Psychics" into wanting to purchase his "Dream catcher" -which was simply a plastic box with a battery to light up the bulb when a dream had been "caught"; a total piece of rubbish-so good was he at the fraud. Also he did a medium's talk to the dead, he openly says he detests this fraud and all he used were the same parlour tricks used by Victorians, He was 100% able to tell the subject "messages" from her family and reduced her to tears on what he told her. As he said, a very cruel fraud with nothing psychic about it. I think this is what drove Randi on, God bless him
@@leeroyjenkins6061 It was in the days before VHS, and it was on one of the evening variety shows...I think the "Mike Douglas Show', or something like that.
We currently live in a time where American politicians are talking about lizards from outer space having come to Earth to eat American babies. This guy seems fairly grounded in comparison.
@@mattiassvanberg9161 I googled to see if a politician said it. Couldn't find anything, but didn't try very hard. It's another Qanon story. I think Alex Jones made claims about lizard people.
@@patrickancona1193 As well you should have. What in the actual fuck... I have so many comments and NONE of them are appropriate. Not one. Good lord. What a goober haircut even by the standards of the times.
@@Jc-dc2jg two fraudsters. It's interesting to see the parallels how you can become rich and famous by defrauding people. I could have named another one, but the one I named is rather well known. So calm down, even if you're in the cult. It's not about the Führer, but about defrauding gullible people and getting away with it. I can see you like certain kinds of criminals, I find them disgusting.
@@zakmartin495 No, you need to learn basic human biology and the amount of energy our bodies or heart generate. You will need a force field enough to manipulate matter in a radius, such power often generate heat and massive explosion of atoms, in this case, Hyrdrick will die from excessive heat or explode due to energy discharge of atoms. The only time you will get a kinetic energy is from fusion or fission.
I followed the work of James Randi closely for a couple of years and must say he pissed off quite a lot of people claiming to be psychic. As this video shows, he offered Hydrick $10 000 to prove that he indeed has psychic abilities. Can you just imagine how much $10 000 was back then? This is how much James knew that these people are all Scammers. RIP James Randi.
@@adb888it was later upped to one million dollars, and the money was guaranteed by the James Randi Educational Foundation. Thousands attempted to get the money but none succeeded.
No, he did. In the end it became a million dollars. And he held a check in his pocket with a bank account ready for it. He legally actually had to have the money, I'm pretty sure. Was done through a foundation and all that.@@adb888
He shoulda just blown the paper again. So what if the styrofoam puffs up? Just say it’s the manifestation of his psychic abilities... it’s more a fail of his showmanship than anything.
it's even more delicate than that. Telephone book pages are very light. When you saw him move his hand forwards that created a puff of air that turned over the page, but the second time the book was opened more forcefully so the page wasn't right about to turn over. It's actually a really cool way to use physics and your hand to do things.
@Jimmi K you can do it at home. You take a book open it up so the pages are right about to turn over, and then brush your hand near them and they will turn over. His mouth was closed and no one heard his nose.
That audience is pretty polite. These days the audience would have laughed when nothing was happening for the “psychic” and would have probably had a heckle or two thrown.
So, which do we prefer? Polite audiences that give these guys a platform to lure gullible people, or an honest reaction that says, gtfo faker, and teach them this bs is not wanted.
It was at a time when the psychic craze was in full swing, people were pretty open-minded about it and believed it was possible. "These days" people know it is pure B.S.
@@markmed9091 AND THEY CAN TELL YOU TO GFYS IN ALL CAPS TOO .ISN'T THAT AMAZING !!! I CAN BET YOU HAVE NO IMPORTANCE, BUT YOU ARE A BIG PERSON RUNNING YOUR MOUTH ON A VIDEO FORUM . . . .HOW PATHETIC ARE YOU ?
i love how he tried to demonstrate that the pages had a tendency to fall towards him but ended up proving the opposite where the pages fall away from him
@@GrammeStudio look static is pulling the pages down -page falls wrong way -nervous sweating -tries again, fails again -pulls page to make it fall the right way -phew im safe
The more fictional nonsense a population believes, the easier they are to control and bleed dry. Religions, psychics, snake oil salesmen...they're all the same.
It was entertainment in a "haha look at this idiot" kinda way. Assuming that everyone already knows it's fake, and not calling it out is how you get people believing in nonsense.
NazcarFanatic24 It’s the difference between modernism and postmodernism. The modernist view is that is that we will march forward and onward towards a brighter future with the power of science and human reason and there’s no place for these old hokey superstitions to hold us back. Then the USSR fell, they declared that we had reached “The End of History” and they bring back the old mysticism because we need things that help justify the new eternal order.
"James Allen Hydrick (born February 28, 1959) is an American former stage performer and self-described psychic, and a convicted child molester. " No wonder he owns that kind of haircut.
Me, too. I was in single digits. The late 70's was at a fever pitch for the supernatural being on primetime tv. You had specials, That's Incredible, Real People, Ripley's. It was even working its way into shows that were based in the real world, but then they would have a couple episodes focusing on a character with supernatural abilities. It was quite a confusing time to be a young kid!
I remember this psychic era as well as a kid. Our society was overly fixated on these powers, I remember doing that broken watch thing Uri Geller did on TV, trying to get my broken watch to work. Thank you for James Randi.
Its strange as a kid, you kind of root for them to have psychic powers and might even get mad that James Randi tells the truth. Then you understand James Randi is the real hero, and makes you realize how dangerous it is that these liars can manipulate kids and the simple minded.
James was a legend, and yes I remember as a kid in the 80’s I would watch unsolved mysteries and any story about aliens and miracles or plaster statues of Jesus suddenly begins crying tears of blood in a Pennsylvania church, all that just me a sense of wonder and excitement, now my wonder and excitement comes from objective things in life and roll my eyes at the irrelevant stuff
Thats funny. I'd like to see what happened he tried to rob a bank (Police perspective). Cop - okay one last time just to make sure we didn't miss anything. Teller - Yes sir I understand. Cop - you say he showed up around lunchtime. And he was wearing what looked like custom made pajamas (Teller starts snickering, tries not to). So you say he was wearing "custom made pajamas" Teller Yes sir (losing composure) now the officer is having trouble keeping a straight face. Cop - Okay let's be serious here. That's when your boss, Ms. Maple said he looked like...(Ms Maple speaks up) "I said he looked like a child molester from outer space". (At this point nearly everyone is losing it). Cop - But you DID say he tried to steal money, correct? Teller - Yes. The unsecured bills started to float and move towards the window. Cop - so all the cash that was floating away. How much was that, do you think? Teller - (barely able to breathe). It was... it .. Nine dollars sir. Cop - he robbed a bank and only got nine dollars? Teller - No, no sir. Ms. Jackson over there, she stopped it. (Cop turns to see who Ms. Jackson is. She appears to be in her mid 80's, she smiles and gives a wave. Cop - Okay, how did you namage to do that, Ms. Jackson? Ms. Jackson - I closed the window. Everybody is turning colors. The cop reaches for his shoulder mic, requests medical, listens for a second or two, and answers everyone is fine, but bring all the oxygen they have.
I loved Uri Geller as a kid (the spoon bending guy). But of course I knew it was just a simple magic trick, but the fun was the character that he presented as real. That was the act. If people actually believed well that is on him. Of course as a kid of science the Amazing Randi was great at debunking these guys. Remember psychic surgeons?
the real super power here is James Randi's ability to apparently never have been young, ironically preventing him from being the victim of Hydrick and not the other way around.
His excuse was not scientific at all. Light and foam can't make static electricity, that's just nonsense. And to prove it he pretended to drop the page oddly. What BS
I always wonder how many of them have convinced themselves that they really do have powers. Like maybe Tracksuit Bowlcut always thought he was just doing magical yoga breathing up until now. And now that Randi pointed out that he has been blowing on things to make them move, he is trying it without breathing and is terrified to learn that it doesn't work. I know it sounds ridiculous. But if someone wants superpowers badly enough, they could conceivably delude themselves into thinking they have them.
I think in a situation like this, he can't just dismiss Randi's restrictions out of hand, otherwise it'd be tantamount to admitting Randi stumped him. So the "best" thing he has left is to give the impression he's trying to work his magic while thinking up an "explanation" as to why said magic isn't working at the moment.
@@Plant_Parenthood Back in the vaudeville days they called this “becoming a sucker”. Orson Welles quit doing cold readings because it got to the point that he could do it unconsciously and it was becoming creepy for him.
@@kabukiman2153 It’s when you use open questions and simple deductions to create the illusion that you can read minds. Like you go up to an audience and say “I feel a Margaret, it could be a mother or a sister…” and an older lady says “My mother’s name was Margaret.”. Since she referred to her in the past tense you say “I want you to know that she’s watching over you. She’s telling me about the first time she let you cook, you remember how many dirty dishes there were? She’s caring for you now just as she was then.”. And she’s so surprised like “How does he know about that?”. Of course it’s because every woman remembers being allowed to cook with their mom the first time. Cold reading really is super easy. After a little practice you can do it on autopilot.
what’s a papercut? I think of them as very painful but ultimately not very damaging cuts you get from the edge of a piece of paper.. how would you have a jar of those?
@@alanhillyard1639 Gabor kapus said "tin" instead of "can," so my assumption is that s/he is British or is from somewhere else that would have a preference for "tin" over "can" in this context. This also suggests to me that s/he understands "papercuts" not to mean what is typically meant in American English but to mean something like "little bits of paper"--which bits would likely have been created by cutting up larger pieces of paper.
I'd just blow away the styrofoam together with the page and go "woah, never expected that my power grew so much, I gotta learn how to control it better, call me in a month".
@@DOI_ARTS He is not doing it by breathing. He does it by getting some distance to the phone book, then briskly walking towards it and crouching, that is enough to create a small air current to move the thin pages.
@@caav56 I think the point was with that level of "telekinesis" he'd only be able to move aside a follicle of your head hair. MUch less beyond anything past your skin.
@@caav56 yeah if he can't overcome the slightest of static charge in the room to move a piece of paper he definitely wouldn't be able to affect someone's brain waves which are much stronger electrical pulses
That's what they usually say. Hydrick knew of the existence of static electricity - which puts him a cut above the average scammer - but what he said about it made no sense.
Randi: "I've been here the whole time. And even if I weren't here, if one naysayer can allow the psychic power to no longer exist, then it's not an impressive power to me, and is not worth my time or money, even if it did exist."
Apparently that wasn't the only time he was exposed. From Wikipedia "Hydrick also set up martial arts classes and claimed he could pass on the gift of psychokinesis to children through special training techniques, which was shown in 1989 to be a front for his coercing children into performing sexual favors for him, and was a factor in his conviction for sexual assault of a minor." "Wanted on an outstanding warrant, Hydrick was apprehended after police saw him discussing psychic powers on the Sally Jessy Raphael talk show. In 1989, Hydrick was sentenced to 17 years for molesting five boys in Huntington Beach, California. After serving his sentence, he was remanded to Atascadero State Hospital for treatment under the state's sexually violent predator law. Psychologist Jesus Padilla described Hydrick as "an extremely difficult patient" who suffers from pedophilia, paraphilia, and antisocial personality disorder. Hydrick petitioned for release in May 2013, but a trial resulted in a hung jury. As of 2021, he is housed at the Coalinga State Hospital."
Thanks for that. I thought I'd heard he was a convicted murderer, sadly it turns out he's guilty of equally or even more heinous crimes. I hope he's getting all the mental health care he needs, but I also hope he never gets released to test how well it worked
I laughed out loud when he tried to drop the page, so it fell toward him - and didn't. Then I laughed so much harder when he even tried to hold the page closer to him, and it still went the other way. @4:05
James Allen Hydrick (born February 28, 1959) is an American former stage performer and self-described psychic, and a convicted sex offender. Hydrick was convicted of kidnapping and torture in 1977, for which he was imprisoned. Throughout the 1970s, Hydrick was arrested repeatedly for crimes ranging from burglary to assault. Hydrick also set up martial arts classes and claimed he could pass on the gift of psychokinesis to children through special training techniques, which was shown in 1989 to be a front for his coercing children into performing sexual favors for him, and was a factor in his conviction for sexual assault of a minor. Hydrick was sentenced to 17 years for molesting five boys in Huntington Beach, California. After serving his sentence, he was remanded to Atascadero State Hospital for treatment under the state's sexually violent predator law.
I knew this guy was a total fkin creep. I remember the part about him being an ex con but I didn’t know it was for sex crimes. Why would they give a platform to someone with such a disgusting record? Wtf.
Yep, he knew at that very moment they debunked his so called amazing ability and that his career was over, mmmm? I wonder what that guy does for a living now?
It's a shame it was just a hoax. Imagine the world we might be living in today if we had learned in the 1970's how to cause pages in a book and well-balanced pencils to turn using the power of our minds
those abilities would be absolutely useless in our modern society, I mean, how are we going to solve the worlds problems by turning a pencil using our mind? Imagine if we could genetically modify each member of society to increase their IQ by another 10 points, now that would transform our world entirely. (good or bad)
@@Danuxsy Well, when you put it like that, it almost makes the idea that this man was given national media attention seem like a matter of questionable judgment, regardless of whether he truly possessed the psychic abilities which he claimed! But returning to this proposition of yours: if we were to somehow increase the IQ of society, what sort of transformations do you think we might see in the realm of say parody?
In those days he could have just moved to the uk and carried on. Amazing how uri gelled carried on as if nothing happened after being exposed in the same way on American tv.
Well, extremely useful actually, to science anyway... It would mean that there would be proof that the human mind is capable of doing such a thing, therefore leading to research and progression of such ability, perhaps not just in the knob on stage, but for other people, where who knows, you might find yourself being able to fly just with your thoughts....! But it isn't real and we don't have those abilities, so pointless waste of time
My theory is that Randi is the most powerful psychic in the world and also a troll. He goes around the world switching off everyone else's psychic powers with his own power. j/k
What was going through his head at the final moments of him trying to move the page? 'Damn i wish i had actual psychic powers, wouldn't that be amazing'.
Even if he had real powers, they’re limited to moving a pencil and a single phone book page. Move an anvil or an entire phone booth and then I’ll be impressed.
Why would that impress you? Do you think David Copperfield actually made the Statue of Liberty disappear? Size matters not, it's all bullshit "tricks".
Bahahahahahaaaa! Your post was golden! I might be impressed seeing them move a piece of paper but hey, why not something slightly bigger such as a cell phone or a laptop? If they can make it even budge a fraction of an inch while it's behind a glass wall, I'll be VERY impressed. I mean it.
@@largol33t1 If the psychic power was true it would be bringing to light an entirely new field of physics and whoever discovered it would receive a Nobel prize
I love the fact that, he thought for no aparrent reason, that the best stage costume for his trickory was to dress as a camp Samurai complete with tash and bowl cut.
@@NPCHSNIf you think about it, The Jerry Springer show was the end of human decency. It showed the media that people are interested in sickness and depravity and the media then focused on it, creating the garbage we see today.
Why do all self proclaimed psychics dress like goddamn psychopaths? If a person says they can read minds while dressed like a JoJo character, it's probably not a good indication of legitimacy.
Ironically enough it later transpired that he actually was a psychopath. He was literally diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder after his incarceration for kidnapping, torture and child molestation.
what country are you from where your politicians are claiming psychic powers? that was just the cia that one time. though that psycic nancy reagan always went to would be fun to see on this show lol
Hydrick: "the static is still gonna be here coz of the styro" Randi: "ok then, i will remove all these styro, but i will cover your mouth with a mask how bout that" Hydrick: ".... yup you got me, im fake"
I think Randi often treated the "psychics" he busted with kid gloves because he knew a fair portion of them were actually mentally ill people that truly believed in their own lies. He wasn't the kind to giggle gleefully at the person's demise, if anything, he felt sorry for them.
Wow, I didn't even realize that's Bob Barker. I only ever saw him on The Price is Right, it didn't even occur to me he might have ever hosted any other shows! I thought he sounded like he had a very classic TV host voice. Turns out that's because he's the exact same guy who my idea of "classic TV host voice" is based on in the first place!
There's an interview somewhere in which Bob Barker basically admitted he and Randi set up the "psychic". That's why they had the props (the phonebook, pencil, and plastic fluff) ready in the studio. They already knew his tricks, so they came prepared with enough rope for him to hang himself with. Bob Barker is the unsung hero of this clip.
The Amazing Randi was a great man, who faced a lot of opposition in his times for what he was doing, but I doubt that anyone will ever be able to replace him. We should remember him for what he has done to counter freuds and fake psychics, something that was necessary back then, but that is still useful today.
My favourite bit is after he already failed and started making excuses the presenter looks him dead in the face and says "you should at least try, with psychic power, to turn the page of the telephone directory James"
I'm old. I remember Bob Barker on tbe show Truth or Consequences in the 70s . The Price is Right had it's 50th year special on tv recently . It was the first time that Price is Right had a prime time special episode , that Bob didn't attend as a guest . In his mid 90s now .
@The Doobie Sisters & Sack Blabbath I always imagined that that's what he was doing the whole time he was "attempting"... I laugh thru this whole damn clip
@Vino How? He wouldn't be able to blow air underneath the page that way. And if he did somehow manage to do it then he could bring out the good ol styrofoam.
How many "psychics" have had their sphincters tighten by hearing the phrase, "And here's James Randi"?
Tracy Sanders lol. This comment wins the internet.
Tracy Sanders ...a few
Tracy Sanders
None anymore....
Tracy Sanders James Randi is the sphincter.
LOL!!!!!
Plot twist: Randi is using his even stronger psychic powers to hold the page down
omg IM DEAD
wait, you basically stole this comment. smh
He created this show to keep his powers secret.
big brain
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
No psychic power in the whole universe could save a man from that haircut.
It's Candy Time Boys and Girls bit like Bruce lee’s tho ? I think he was Bruce lees clown brother
😂 True enough
But when Tyler, The creator does it it's okay?
this was 10 years ago
@@worm69420 didnt know that.. but he escaped prison by punching through it
I love how Randi comes out and does the "pencil trick" right off the bat using the same hand gestures and gets the exact same result, just awesome.
That's just because he's psychic too.
He's clearly trying to keep the existence of psychic abilities hidden from the general public
He came dressed like a playing card so Randy played him.
Best comment ever! 😂
That's a good one!
🤣🤣🤣
I came here for the comments, I'm not disappointed.
Randi had an ace up his sleeve! 🤣
Why not just ask him to turn the page toward himself instead of away?
You obviously don’t understand how physic power works , sir
A n g e l o lmfao you are talking like it was real
@@yopierreyouwannacomeouther7231 thatsthejoke.jpeg
Good point
I never thought of that.
Wow, The Price is Right was really different back in the day.
Mr. V lol i thought this was done on the price is right,
That was the first thing I thought of lmao
😂😂😂 This made my morning
(Psychic does a fake)
_one dollar, Bob_
The price is wrong, bitch.
I like how you can see him trying to resort to telekinesis and thinking "Well, there's always a first time"
i was thinking the same thing
Please work please work 😂
always keep your mind open but keep doubt closer ps a man claimed his challenge for money.... he proved it and then.. didnt take the money..... some computer to human telepathy... thing
@@HarmonRAB-hp4nk No, that did not happen.
Follow your own advice.
Actually, don't follow that advice. Keep doubt closer than your own open mind? That makes zero sense.
@@HarmonRAB-hp4nkno there was a guy that could read vinyl records by looking at the grooves. He refused the reward because he just practiced really hard and wasn’t psychic
He was thinking " dang now i gotta go work for a living"
"I wish I hadn't spent all my psychic money on silk robes :("
Jerry Lee Kersey lmao
😂😂😂 better get his fake ass up early tomorrow!
xDDDDDDDD
"...and all because of $.04 worth of tissue paper :( "
I saw this in real time. I had to have been, like, four or five. I was initially impressed with the guy dressed like a superhero, and mad at the small man in the suit, but by the end, I realized that adults can be trickers, and a certain amount of skepticism can keep you safe. Thank you, James Randi, for the lesson. RIP
Nice story :)
Where did you see this live?
That's why I admire people like Paul Daniels and Derrin Brown who can do all of these "Psychic" tricks (and will do them under laboratory conditions) and openly say it is a trick/illusion . Derrin Brown has even fooled "Psychics" into wanting to purchase his "Dream catcher" -which was simply a plastic box with a battery to light up the bulb when a dream had been "caught"; a total piece of rubbish-so good was he at the fraud. Also he did a medium's talk to the dead, he openly says he detests this fraud and all he used were the same parlour tricks used by Victorians, He was 100% able to tell the subject "messages" from her family and reduced her to tears on what he told her. As he said, a very cruel fraud with nothing psychic about it. I think this is what drove Randi on, God bless him
Wow, you must be like a hundred years old
@@leeroyjenkins6061 It was in the days before VHS, and it was on one of the evening variety shows...I think the "Mike Douglas Show', or something like that.
Gotta admire the guy in a way. His dedication and willingness to make a complete ass of himself on television is faultless.
We currently live in a time where American politicians are talking about lizards from outer space having come to Earth to eat American babies. This guy seems fairly grounded in comparison.
@@jeschinstad Who?
@@mattiassvanberg9161 I googled to see if a politician said it. Couldn't find anything, but didn't try very hard. It's another Qanon story. I think Alex Jones made claims about lizard people.
@@jeschinstad
I’d love to read your response to the previous two posts..
are you being held back by polystyrene packing chips and electric lights ?
@@impossiblewhopper539: I don't understand your question.
I want to meet the person that sold him the wig and jumpsuit . They are the true magician
😂
Unfortunately,it's not a wig.....it's an actual haircut.Crime against nature
The Amazing Randi vs. The Amazing Brucelee
That’s just a 70’s style all the tiny bopper kids had, & ya we made fun of em over it
@@patrickancona1193 As well you should have. What in the actual fuck... I have so many comments and NONE of them are appropriate. Not one. Good lord. What a goober haircut even by the standards of the times.
Basically, don’t make stupid claims and end up on national television trying to exhibit them
Billy Bob John Adam Joe he probably made a few dollars on the way
The fraudster Uri Geller made millions with it and the fraudster Trump even more.
IM IMPERVIOUS TO ACID
@@aljoschalong625 theres always atleast one left winger having a mental breakdown on videos totally unrelated to US politics, and its you.
@@Jc-dc2jg two fraudsters. It's interesting to see the parallels how you can become rich and famous by defrauding people. I could have named another one, but the one I named is rather well known. So calm down, even if you're in the cult. It's not about the Führer, but about defrauding gullible people and getting away with it. I can see you like certain kinds of criminals, I find them disgusting.
"The styrofoam and the lights create an electric power that pulls the page down."
I believe we call that gravity James...
@Straaww I have the same or file pic lol
But it's in my Whatsapp
Raji K You like raisins? Because I only have raisin cookies for you
Ruddi corniest comment I’ve seen in 5 years. Thanks
Senor GOOCH glad someone noticed it 😂
He's talking about static electricity. He claims that the pages stick like a balloons stick to your hair in dry air. Clever counter to be honest.
Has James Randi ever not looked 80 years old?
rustybones99 🤣🤣🤣
The dude is still alive!!!
I know for a fact that he looked only 70 for the first half of his life.
Very unfair comment.
Chocolatetown Forever 😂😂!!! What the fuck made you say that?!? I’m dying right now. Most absurd but greatest comment ever!
He’s the white Morgan freeman
Imagine developing psychic powers so that you can slightly move a pencil and turn the page of a phone book.
If the psychic power was true it would be bringing to light an entirely new field of physics and whoever discovered it would receive a Nobel prize
If I developed those powers, I guarantee that, one day, I'd be sitting in my silly black and white costume, thinking "Surely, there's an easier way?"
"I've finally done it! Now to make some custom stage pajamas"
What's your power?
Remember that thing the telephone book?
Only if the pencil is already precariously balanced, and only if there's no "static" near the pages.
Host: _“James?”_
James Hydrick: _“Ready!”_
Narrator: **but James was not ready**
Read this in Morgan Freeman's voice.
@@haircafekevin that's a given
James was not ready at all..
@mueez 😂😂 Thank you that gave me such a great laugh
It's funny how everybody just says "host". That's not just a host that's Bob Barker.
"If Uri Gellar is bending spoons with his mind, he's doing it the hard way." - James Randi
What’s the difference between this guy and magicians?
Magicians tell you it’s a trick.
And magicians don't touch your young boy's willy!
ماماذا لو كان هذا كله حقيقي وهذه الفيزياء حقيقية
@@zakmartin495 No, you need to learn basic human biology and the amount of energy our bodies or heart generate. You will need a force field enough to manipulate matter in a radius, such power often generate heat and massive explosion of atoms, in this case, Hyrdrick will die from excessive heat or explode due to energy discharge of atoms. The only time you will get a kinetic energy is from fusion or fission.
Magicians in fiction: About that...
The real difference is magicians tricks are actually worth watching. This douche-bag isn't.
I followed the work of James Randi closely for a couple of years and must say he pissed off quite a lot of people claiming to be psychic. As this video shows, he offered Hydrick $10 000 to prove that he indeed has psychic abilities. Can you just imagine how much $10 000 was back then? This is how much James knew that these people are all Scammers. RIP James Randi.
One time, he was so sure a guy was lying that he upped the reward to a whopping $50,000! Of course the guy was faking it.
$35,000
Dude probably didn't even have 10k to handout like that lol - was just that confident.
@@adb888it was later upped to one million dollars, and the money was guaranteed by the James Randi Educational Foundation.
Thousands attempted to get the money but none succeeded.
No, he did. In the end it became a million dollars. And he held a check in his pocket with a bank account ready for it. He legally actually had to have the money, I'm pretty sure. Was done through a foundation and all that.@@adb888
He shoulda just blown the paper again. So what if the styrofoam puffs up? Just say it’s the manifestation of his psychic abilities... it’s more a fail of his showmanship than anything.
it's even more delicate than that. Telephone book pages are very light. When you saw him move his hand forwards that created a puff of air that turned over the page, but the second time the book was opened more forcefully so the page wasn't right about to turn over. It's actually a really cool way to use physics and your hand to do things.
@@rrteppo you're an idiot
@Jimmi K you can do it at home. You take a book open it up so the pages are right about to turn over, and then brush your hand near them and they will turn over. His mouth was closed and no one heard his nose.
Exactly. Thank you
Modern psychics never get it wrong
That audience is pretty polite. These days the audience would have laughed when nothing was happening for the “psychic” and would have probably had a heckle or two thrown.
It’s because they genuinely believed in him
plot twist: there was no audience
I prefer the actual audience without doubt
So, which do we prefer? Polite audiences that give these guys a platform to lure gullible people, or an honest reaction that says, gtfo faker, and teach them this bs is not wanted.
It was at a time when the psychic craze was in full swing, people were pretty open-minded about it and believed it was possible. "These days" people know it is pure B.S.
Randi was the boss at owning these quack magicians and psychics. He passed on 10/20/20. RIP, you did good work, sir.
It's for entertainment 🤐
Sounds like you hated playing with friends
October, 2020?
I didn't know he died
@@D-J-1-1-1 what a stupid comment.
@@TurdFurgeson275 l
JUST REMEMBER WE STILL HAVE PEOPLE SAYING THE EARTH IS FLAT . 2024
Yes, those people need to realize that the ground is flat, but the planet is altogether round. All they have to do is just look at a full moon.
Yes , and we still have people typing in all caps because they think they are so very , very important in 2024 !
@@markmed9091 I know. It's clinical. 👍
@@markmed9091 AND THEY CAN TELL YOU TO GFYS IN ALL CAPS TOO .ISN'T THAT AMAZING !!! I CAN BET YOU HAVE NO IMPORTANCE, BUT YOU ARE A BIG PERSON RUNNING YOUR MOUTH ON A VIDEO FORUM . . . .HOW PATHETIC ARE YOU ?
... not to mention voting for Trump.
I can tell by his hair that he's telling the truth
@ItchyPilauBoto808 was he really?
@ItchyPilauBoto808 well ain't that some shit.
Jacob oh, my. 😂😂😂
@@mikehuntsmells5253 yes and he also has psychic powers
Esper Roba ?
When the teacher asks for the essay I was supposed to write, and I start digging through my bookbag knowing damned well that I didn't write the essay.
I literally LOL'd
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣💀💀💀
Lmao relatable! "Uhhm... It's not... Here... OH NO I MUST'VE FORGOT IT AT HOME 😅"
Gotta still put on a show.
To Seth Clonts: Easier to produce nothing devoid of fardel; chicane, cover up and seek the Zane of sloth.
Eight years later and I still can't handle the cringe.
Eight years ago you weren't using the word cringe.. and probably didnt even know what it meant'!!
More like 30 or 40 years ago
augman
I wasnt't talking about when this was recorded.. Just as this guy was talking about when it was uploaded..
TheSlimification1 I see.
How about now?
4:05 "the Styrofoam pulls the page down!"
[lifts page, page falls forwards...] XD
Best part haha. Literally falls forward twice 😂😂
The electricity is pulling the paper down. Thats is technically possible. It is also technically possible that gravity pulled it down.
PaulMag 😂😂😂😂
i love how he tried to demonstrate that the pages had a tendency to fall towards him but ended up proving the opposite where the pages fall away from him
gravity is a myth
@@heartofjustice6041 ????
@@GrammeStudio look static is pulling the pages down
-page falls wrong way
-nervous sweating
-tries again, fails again
-pulls page to make it fall the right way
-phew im safe
I miss the days when hosts allowed folks to debunk psychics, instead of giving them credibility like they do nowadays.
In times of "participation medals", debunking someone is a huuuuuuuuge no-no…
The more fictional nonsense a population believes, the easier they are to control and bleed dry. Religions, psychics, snake oil salesmen...they're all the same.
It was entertainment in a "haha look at this idiot" kinda way. Assuming that everyone already knows it's fake, and not calling it out is how you get people believing in nonsense.
Harris Naseem what the fuck
NazcarFanatic24 It’s the difference between modernism and postmodernism. The modernist view is that is that we will march forward and onward towards a brighter future with the power of science and human reason and there’s no place for these old hokey superstitions to hold us back. Then the USSR fell, they declared that we had reached “The End of History” and they bring back the old mysticism because we need things that help justify the new eternal order.
"James Allen Hydrick (born February 28, 1959) is an American former stage performer and self-described psychic, and a convicted child molester. "
No wonder he owns that kind of haircut.
And mustache
You have a nice profile of Aniki
@@e12129e HandsUp
Who could have seen that coming?
Rock Lee
I watched this live as a little kid. it honestly changed my life.
That can happen if a wicked uncle sits you on Jeffrey Epstein's lap.
I remember watching it live as a kid too. I even remembered the lame "static" excuse. It taught me to always look at any claims like this skeptically.
Me, too. I was in single digits. The late 70's was at a fever pitch for the supernatural being on primetime tv. You had specials, That's Incredible, Real People, Ripley's. It was even working its way into shows that were based in the real world, but then they would have a couple episodes focusing on a character with supernatural abilities. It was quite a confusing time to be a young kid!
I remember this psychic era as well as a kid. Our society was overly fixated on these powers, I remember doing that broken watch thing Uri Geller did on TV, trying to get my broken watch to work. Thank you for James Randi.
He just walks up and recreates dude's pencil trick immediately 😂
James Randi walks out and just blows that frauds act up immediately, absolutely hilarious.
Because thats one of the oldest tricks in the book. He has seen it a thousand times
@@rykehuss3435 Yep, we knew that. I was more commenting on the casualness of it all
That was the best part, he just does it so offhand and casual... Pencil, table, wave, there ya go.
Because Randi is also a magician.
5:00 the way he laughs is just priceless. He is thinking "Damn this guy killed my act".
He smiles because he knew he was fucked
so much C R I N G E E E E E E
alem29 that’s the “fuck they’ve got me” laugh
@@markasmaclean420 lmaoooo literally the laugh/look I gave my dad when he caught me smoking weed for the first time
That's the "i got fucking checkmated" laugh
He'd make a lame xmen. His power is slightly moving a pencil and turning a phone book page. :)
He shall be known as... Lamokinetto
he actually is a real psychic, however psychic energy is blocked by styrofoam
His powers could be useful for doing your taxes though.
He'd die in the first page of the first issue.
*Nel* beat me to it, haha!
Its strange as a kid, you kind of root for them to have psychic powers and might even get mad that James Randi tells the truth. Then you understand James Randi is the real hero, and makes you realize how dangerous it is that these liars can manipulate kids and the simple minded.
James was a legend, and yes I remember as a kid in the 80’s I would watch unsolved mysteries and any story about aliens and miracles or plaster statues of Jesus suddenly begins crying tears of blood in a Pennsylvania church, all that just me a sense of wonder and excitement, now my wonder and excitement comes from objective things in life and roll my eyes at the irrelevant stuff
Randi is kind of an ass, but he does provide a public service in debunking these guys.
Turning telephone directory pages man , coming soon to a cinema near you
Thats funny. I'd like to see what happened he tried to rob a bank (Police perspective).
Cop - okay one last time just to make sure we didn't miss anything.
Teller - Yes sir I understand.
Cop - you say he showed up around lunchtime. And he was wearing what looked like custom made pajamas (Teller starts snickering, tries not to). So you say he was wearing "custom made pajamas"
Teller Yes sir (losing composure) now the officer is having trouble keeping a straight face.
Cop - Okay let's be serious here. That's when your boss, Ms. Maple said he looked like...(Ms Maple speaks up) "I said he looked like a child molester from outer space".
(At this point nearly everyone is losing it).
Cop - But you DID say he tried to steal money, correct?
Teller - Yes. The unsecured bills started to float and move towards the window.
Cop - so all the cash that was floating away. How much was that, do you think?
Teller - (barely able to breathe). It was... it .. Nine dollars sir.
Cop - he robbed a bank and only got nine dollars?
Teller - No, no sir. Ms. Jackson over there, she stopped it. (Cop turns to see who Ms. Jackson is. She appears to be in her mid 80's, she smiles and gives a wave.
Cop - Okay, how did you namage to do that, Ms. Jackson?
Ms. Jackson - I closed the window. Everybody is turning colors. The cop reaches for his shoulder mic, requests medical, listens for a second or two, and answers everyone is fine, but bring all the oxygen they have.
I loved Uri Geller as a kid (the spoon bending guy). But of course I knew it was just a simple magic trick, but the fun was the character that he presented as real. That was the act. If people actually believed well that is on him. Of course as a kid of science the Amazing Randi was great at debunking these guys. Remember psychic surgeons?
Styrofoam and the light forms electricity which pulls the page like...
*page falls to the other side*
omg hahaha I am running out of breath..
He should of just blown the styrofoam everywhere and said he can't aim it that well
styrofoam*
thats what i was thinking
they were sitting right next to him, watching his lips.
he couldnt bring himself to even ATTEMPT a gentle puff.
😂😂😂
should HAVE
What if when randi moved the pencil he was actually using psychic powers lmao
Chris billing Low key he’s psychic and he knows other people are but he wants to be the only one so he sabotages them 😂
Good comment
SHHHHHHH
kenji san r/woooosh
What if that was his weakness lol
one thing you've got to remember back then was everybody was kung fu fighting.
Those cats were fast as lightning ⚡️
@@GizmoBeachEverybody was feng shui fighting, that plant is gonna block the lighting
Hydrick did have a martial arts school at some point.
Kicks
The hair and outfit immediately gave away that he was total knob.
People were goofier in the 70s.
i love his outfit
Great British comment mate
@@benhemmings3852 I am Belgian, but an anglophile so I am proud to receive such a compliment. ✌
😀 cheers mate.
the real super power here is James Randi's ability to apparently never have been young, ironically preventing him from being the victim of Hydrick and not the other way around.
I don't remember what the clip was, but I saw James Randi with dark hair.
Probably an episode of "I've Got A Secret" available on the internet.
You don’t wanna be young around Hydrick... look it up.
Remember, Merlin was born old and got younger every year. If one magician can do it, why not another?
Hilarious when a guy claims to have supernatural abilities, then his reasons for not being able to do it are scientific! 😂😂
His excuse was not scientific at all. Light and foam can't make static electricity, that's just nonsense. And to prove it he pretended to drop the page oddly. What BS
Pseudo-scientific.
I love how all these psychics still attempt it with the restrictions, as if they suddenly developed powers in the last 10 seconds
I always wonder how many of them have convinced themselves that they really do have powers.
Like maybe Tracksuit Bowlcut always thought he was just doing magical yoga breathing up until now. And now that Randi pointed out that he has been blowing on things to make them move, he is trying it without breathing and is terrified to learn that it doesn't work.
I know it sounds ridiculous. But if someone wants superpowers badly enough, they could conceivably delude themselves into thinking they have them.
I think in a situation like this, he can't just dismiss Randi's restrictions out of hand, otherwise it'd be tantamount to admitting Randi stumped him. So the "best" thing he has left is to give the impression he's trying to work his magic while thinking up an "explanation" as to why said magic isn't working at the moment.
@@Plant_Parenthood Back in the vaudeville days they called this “becoming a sucker”. Orson Welles quit doing cold readings because it got to the point that he could do it unconsciously and it was becoming creepy for him.
@@GolumTRwhat is a cold reading?
@@kabukiman2153 It’s when you use open questions and simple deductions to create the illusion that you can read minds. Like you go up to an audience and say “I feel a Margaret, it could be a mother or a sister…” and an older lady says “My mother’s name was Margaret.”. Since she referred to her in the past tense you say “I want you to know that she’s watching over you. She’s telling me about the first time she let you cook, you remember how many dirty dishes there were? She’s caring for you now just as she was then.”. And she’s so surprised like “How does he know about that?”. Of course it’s because every woman remembers being allowed to cook with their mom the first time. Cold reading really is super easy. After a little practice you can do it on autopilot.
RIP to the legend. Nobody managed to claim his prize. Winning to the very end
Damn! I didn't even know he died!
I didn't realise he had died until I saw your comment. He was a wonderful fellow.
@chicken nugget can you provide a name of this winner please?
An inventor did actually before Randi died and claimed the prize
@@joegregor6060 name?
I don't remember this episode of mob psycho 100
Underrated
Its reigen
Imagine James Randi going out of his way to disprove Mob that he isn't a psychic after trashing a whole room.
@@Fujimight Dyed his hair
Man even has the same haircut
James Hydrick IS unique. He is the only human being in history whose career ended by a tin of papercuts.... Just brilliant!
Your comment intrigues me. Can you embellish more?
@@JustWasted3HoursHere he thinks the styrofoam is papercuts.
what’s a papercut? I think of them as very painful but ultimately not very damaging cuts you get from the edge of a piece of paper.. how would you have a jar of those?
@@alanhillyard1639 Gabor kapus said "tin" instead of "can," so my assumption is that s/he is British or is from somewhere else that would have a preference for "tin" over "can" in this context. This also suggests to me that s/he understands "papercuts" not to mean what is typically meant in American English but to mean something like "little bits of paper"--which bits would likely have been created by cutting up larger pieces of paper.
@@alanhillyard1639 confetti
For 10gs, I’d still be standing there staring at that directory hoping it moves
I'd just blow away the styrofoam together with the page and go "woah, never expected that my power grew so much, I gotta learn how to control it better, call me in a month".
Do you find it odd that you can not hear him "blowing" but you can hear the page turn, and his feet slide at the slightest.
No, you can practice breathing quietly
@@DOI_ARTS He is not doing it by breathing. He does it by getting some distance to the phone book, then briskly walking towards it and crouching, that is enough to create a small air current to move the thin pages.
Even if he had super power, being able to turn pages and move pencils with the power of mind is pretty lame super power.
Not if you can use it to mangle someone's brain.
@@caav56 I think the point was with that level of "telekinesis" he'd only be able to move aside a follicle of your head hair. MUch less beyond anything past your skin.
Hey ! That’s superpowers shaming.
Aquaman would not be happy to hear you talking like this.
Maybe it’s like a muscle and you have to train it to get betteh
@@caav56 yeah if he can't overcome the slightest of static charge in the room to move a piece of paper he definitely wouldn't be able to affect someone's brain waves which are much stronger electrical pulses
When you're looking through your bag for last nights homework assignment when you know damn well you didn't do it 5:00
this is the most relatable comment on youtube I did this all the way through highschool
How is this not the most liked comment here?
He could've just done the trick anyway and be like "yeah the psychic force moves the styrofoam too because it cant be focused on such a small area"
If i was hydrick I would have said "it doesn't work now cause someone in here doesnt believe!"
Believing is power
Hydrick is peep
That's what they usually say. Hydrick knew of the existence of static electricity - which puts him a cut above the average scammer - but what he said about it made no sense.
So the George Dillman defense?
Randi: "I've been here the whole time. And even if I weren't here, if one naysayer can allow the psychic power to no longer exist, then it's not an impressive power to me, and is not worth my time or money, even if it did exist."
Apparently that wasn't the only time he was exposed. From Wikipedia
"Hydrick also set up martial arts classes and claimed he could pass on the gift of psychokinesis to children through special training techniques, which was shown in 1989 to be a front for his coercing children into performing sexual favors for him, and was a factor in his conviction for sexual assault of a minor."
"Wanted on an outstanding warrant, Hydrick was apprehended after police saw him discussing psychic powers on the Sally Jessy Raphael talk show. In 1989, Hydrick was sentenced to 17 years for molesting five boys in Huntington Beach, California. After serving his sentence, he was remanded to Atascadero State Hospital for treatment under the state's sexually violent predator law. Psychologist Jesus Padilla described Hydrick as "an extremely difficult patient" who suffers from pedophilia, paraphilia, and antisocial personality disorder. Hydrick petitioned for release in May 2013, but a trial resulted in a hung jury. As of 2021, he is housed at the Coalinga State Hospital."
Thanks for that. I thought I'd heard he was a convicted murderer, sadly it turns out he's guilty of equally or even more heinous crimes.
I hope he's getting all the mental health care he needs, but I also hope he never gets released to test how well it worked
Here I am thinking....."This guy must be really embarrassed about his sham." This guy doesn't have the ability to feel shame.
(leans back, twirls beer)
Well, that escalated quickly, I tell's ya hwut!
*sip*
@@franram7426 yeah this is the least of his misdeeds
Holy shit you’re doing Gods work. Awesome story
*Psychic* : *exists*
*James* *Randi* : *I'm* *about* *to* *end* *this* *man* *whole* *career*
Good Boy i mean yeah pretty much
😂
@@rawnuhld that haircut says all
*AND I MEAN LITERALLY!*
Perfect moment for that statement
The moment he realizes he’s caught as a lie is priceless
Huh?
@@joeybeannfunny hamburger time haha
@@ZaynneThaWook huh ????
I laughed out loud when he tried to drop the page, so it fell toward him - and didn't. Then I laughed so much harder when he even tried to hold the page closer to him, and it still went the other way. @4:05
Like the phone book was becoming sentient and saying "I am not going to be complicit in your fraud."
James Allen Hydrick (born February 28, 1959) is an American former stage performer and self-described psychic, and a convicted sex offender. Hydrick was convicted of kidnapping and torture in 1977, for which he was imprisoned. Throughout the 1970s, Hydrick was arrested repeatedly for crimes ranging from burglary to assault. Hydrick also set up martial arts classes and claimed he could pass on the gift of psychokinesis to children through special training techniques, which was shown in 1989 to be a front for his coercing children into performing sexual favors for him, and was a factor in his conviction for sexual assault of a minor. Hydrick was sentenced to 17 years for molesting five boys in Huntington Beach, California. After serving his sentence, he was remanded to Atascadero State Hospital for treatment under the state's sexually violent predator law.
Thank you 👌
I would like to spend an hour with him and a bat, tell if he saw that coming!
@@davesmith3023christ man... that should not be funny but it made me lol
atascadero is in terminator 2
I knew this guy was a total fkin creep. I remember the part about him being an ex con but I didn’t know it was for sex crimes. Why would they give a platform to someone with such a disgusting record? Wtf.
3:04
Hydrick looking down at the plastic particles with a half-smile, definitely thinking to himself, _"Welp, I'm fucked."_
If he actually used "welp", he's probably 6 years old.
4:59
@@Hellwyck There's nothing juvenile about "welp". You definitely seem socially awkward, though.
Yep, he knew at that very moment they debunked his so called amazing ability and that his career was over, mmmm? I wonder what that guy does for a living now?
@@Hellwyck and this is based on what parameters, genius? or was this just a stupid judgement call
The Dumb and Dumber haircut should be a giveaway.
I enjoy how respectful everyone is to one another regardless of their difference of opinions.
shut up
It's called having manners and it seems to have been phased out.
It’s how it was …. once … remember the 70’s and 80’s ? Great times …
Opinions? One guys a fraud. His opinion was he could get away with tricking people. He deserved to get hated on.
@@MrRyan-wu4jx But he kept his cool.
It's a shame it was just a hoax. Imagine the world we might be living in today if we had learned in the 1970's how to cause pages in a book and well-balanced pencils to turn using the power of our minds
we would be living in mars by now. im sure of it.
Bitch I can change my page on my ebook with just my eyeballs
those abilities would be absolutely useless in our modern society, I mean, how are we going to solve the worlds problems by turning a pencil using our mind? Imagine if we could genetically modify each member of society to increase their IQ by another 10 points, now that would transform our world entirely. (good or bad)
@@Danuxsy Well, when you put it like that, it almost makes the idea that this man was given national media attention seem like a matter of questionable judgment, regardless of whether he truly possessed the psychic abilities which he claimed!
But returning to this proposition of yours: if we were to somehow increase the IQ of society, what sort of transformations do you think we might see in the realm of say parody?
@@MarcillaSmith I can't answer that.
He deserves a jail sentence for that fkn suit and haircut combo .
and for molesting children. Read the Wikipedia entry.
He's got nice kicks, ngl
He's serving one. Hydrick was imprisoned for child molestation in 1989; he remains in a psychiatric hospital.
well,
Plot twist, I googled this Hydrick guy. Doesn’t end well for him.
Drug addiction?
Nope. Child molestation charges and is currently shacked up in a loony bin.
Holy crap.....
That was quite the rabbit hole. My lord...
He looks exactly how I’d expect a pedophile to look.
Makes sense
Atleast he is not stupid enough to blow the page while being watched. 😅
Yup, that was his "out"... sort of.
You telling me he's a liar?
"I'm going to end this man's whole career" has never been more apt.
In those days he could have just moved to the uk and carried on. Amazing how uri gelled carried on as if nothing happened after being exposed in the same way on American tv.
Even if he possessed these powers, how useless would the ability to move a pencil be lol
true
Or the fact that he can't even move a single sheet of paper if there is a slight amount of static electricity
🤣
Well, extremely useful actually, to science anyway... It would mean that there would be proof that the human mind is capable of doing such a thing, therefore leading to research and progression of such ability, perhaps not just in the knob on stage, but for other people, where who knows, you might find yourself being able to fly just with your thoughts....! But it isn't real and we don't have those abilities, so pointless waste of time
get out of here he could have progressed to move mountains
Today we openly support and encourage lies and trickery.
"Alternative facts."
For real, just think how many boomers support socialism to this day
The election was stolen even though it wasnt
Meh Penn and Teller's "Fool Us" is just this same thing, but not antagonistic towards the showman.
It's SO awkward watching this, the guy knows he's a scam artist (he later openly admitted it)
Of course he knew. How can you blow on pages, make silly gestures and not know it?
@Super Sharp Shooter God knows the trickery he was attempting to use on them....
@Super Sharp Shooter that haircut alone was reason enough to sent him to prison
@@_Guraffenguru lmao I didn't see that coming
@FIGHTFANNERD9 Went to prison in 1991, still incarcerated in a mental hospital today. Probably still claiming he has psychic powers.........
My theory is that Randi is the most powerful psychic in the world and also a troll. He goes around the world switching off everyone else's psychic powers with his own power. j/k
requemao so he is basically Xavier from the xmen?
hes not charles Xavier, hes that kid whos the "Mutant Cure" from the Xmen movies.
He's Eraser Head from Boku no Hero Academia...XD
Nobody gives a squat about your theory
After that "static" excuse I would've been like:
"Alright, let's shred a couple of pages and replace the styrofoam with the shreds."
What was going through his head at the final moments of him trying to move the page? 'Damn i wish i had actual psychic powers, wouldn't that be amazing'.
this never ever gets old. 20 years from now in my 50's I'll still watch this.
I'm in my 50s and I still watch it.
See you both in 19 years!
As an electrical engineering student, his excuse was particularly painful to hear.
magnetic ink paper and styrofoam eh?
hahaha same my ears are bleeding right away after i her that
How painfully true it was, you mean?
I have a degree in Psychology and even I am cringing like hell
that smile and laugh on the second go is the mark of "I'm beat"
Even if he _did_ have psychic powers, they’re incredibly weak if he can’t turn a single page due to a little static electricity.
i mean, do you know how psychic powers even work? how can you be sure that if they did exist, that static electricity wouldnt be a huge problem?
Foam doesn’t generate static electricity sitting in table
@@giraffe3718they don't work, because they're not a thing that exists
Even if he had real powers, they’re limited to moving a pencil and a single phone book page. Move an anvil or an entire phone booth and then I’ll be impressed.
Why would that impress you? Do you think David Copperfield actually made the Statue of Liberty disappear? Size matters not, it's all bullshit "tricks".
@@ross-carlson r/whoosh
Bahahahahahaaaa! Your post was golden! I might be impressed seeing them move a piece of paper but hey, why not something slightly bigger such as a cell phone or a laptop? If they can make it even budge a fraction of an inch while it's behind a glass wall, I'll be VERY impressed. I mean it.
@@largol33t1 If the psychic power was true it would be bringing to light an entirely new field of physics and whoever discovered it would receive a Nobel prize
@@davesmith3023.......but move the controls with your mind.😅
I love the fact that, he thought for no aparrent reason, that the best stage costume for his trickory was to dress as a camp Samurai complete with tash and bowl cut.
🤦🏽🤦🏽😂😂😂😂
The bowl cut is a dead giveaway.
@@mindlessmonk3322 I NEEEVER trust a man or woman with a bowl cut. NEVER!
When you took so many drugs in the 60s that it's the 70s and you're in a Kung Fu suit on TV
This was done so calmly and with such class. Even the audience was quiet! I wish more people could have thoughtful discussions like this in public.
People used to have class. Now, the entire audience would be screaming nonsense.
Dumb people are very angry people.
@@NPCHSNIf you think about it, The Jerry Springer show was the end of human decency. It showed the media that people are interested in sickness and depravity and the media then focused on it, creating the garbage we see today.
I can’t believe you, you psychic-phobe! How dare you!!??!! I’m literally shaking right now!!!
Why do all self proclaimed psychics dress like goddamn psychopaths? If a person says they can read minds while dressed like a JoJo character, it's probably not a good indication of legitimacy.
Yeah, it's like Pennywise's clown outfit.
Because they also molest children.
Ironically enough it later transpired that he actually was a psychopath. He was literally diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder after his incarceration for kidnapping, torture and child molestation.
@@oliverholmes-gunning5372He was never kidnapped, it was just his first magic scam gone wrong
"Ok, so... the styrofoam, and the lights... create electricity wich pulls the pages down..."
*SCIENCE 100*
We need to bring this show back and put our politicians on it.
That's gonna be a total cringefest!
And i'm all in for it!
It would need to be two hour episodes just for the excuses and answers that are not really answers.
what country are you from where your politicians are claiming psychic powers? that was just the cia that one time. though that psycic nancy reagan always went to would be fun to see on this show lol
The world needs more Randi’s. A lot more. Charlatans are everywhere.
This man has a superpower and his weakness is styrofoam and light. Boy. He's gonna be pretty useless against foambeam man the mob boss....
Foambeam, Lord of Light.
😅
Hydrick: "the static is still gonna be here coz of the styro"
Randi: "ok then, i will remove all these styro, but i will cover your mouth with a mask how bout that"
Hydrick: ".... yup you got me, im fake"
Watch Hydrick desperately try to blow on the pages via his nostrils and explosively blast them with loogie's instead.
Or put wooden chips
The mouth and is needed to to channel energy correctly.
His life made an impact for the better I'm sure. That's all that one can hope for.
RIP James Randi 1928-2020.
He lives in Georgia snapperhead
I love it when people assume an atheist is resting in peace. It’s lights out, remember ? Lmao idiots
Randi was too polite to that scoundrel.
I think Randi often treated the "psychics" he busted with kid gloves because he knew a fair portion of them were actually mentally ill people that truly believed in their own lies. He wasn't the kind to giggle gleefully at the person's demise, if anything, he felt sorry for them.
Bob Barker being chill AF even when the psychic is clearly called out. Class.
Wow, I didn't even realize that's Bob Barker. I only ever saw him on The Price is Right, it didn't even occur to me he might have ever hosted any other shows! I thought he sounded like he had a very classic TV host voice. Turns out that's because he's the exact same guy who my idea of "classic TV host voice" is based on in the first place!
And that dude is still alive. How?
@@J-Pow which guy? Cuz 2 of them ain't
@@nicoledoubleyou Bob Barker is the host of this segment. He's 99 right now.
There's an interview somewhere in which Bob Barker basically admitted he and Randi set up the "psychic". That's why they had the props (the phonebook, pencil, and plastic fluff) ready in the studio. They already knew his tricks, so they came prepared with enough rope for him to hang himself with. Bob Barker is the unsung hero of this clip.
The Amazing Randi was a great man, who faced a lot of opposition in his times for what he was doing, but I doubt that anyone will ever be able to replace him. We should remember him for what he has done to counter freuds and fake psychics, something that was necessary back then, but that is still useful today.
"to counter freuds" Is that a Fraudian slip?
My favourite bit is after he already failed and started making excuses the presenter looks him dead in the face and says "you should at least try, with psychic power, to turn the page of the telephone directory James"
Agreed. But you sure made me feel old referring to Bob Barker as "the presenter".
Haha same, but in fairness I grew up with Bob Barker, and I only recognized his voice not his young face haha
I'm old. I remember Bob Barker on tbe show Truth or Consequences in the 70s . The Price is Right had it's 50th year special on tv recently . It was the first time that Price is Right had a prime time special episode , that Bob didn't attend as a guest . In his mid 90s now .
That's Bob Barker, not just some generic host.
The fact he even attempts after randy placed the styrofoam was hilarious in itself 😂
The static tho
@The Doobie Sisters & Sack Blabbath I always imagined that that's what he was doing the whole time he was "attempting"... I laugh thru this whole damn clip
If he would've focused more on being a magician he'd probably have a successful career.
If he'd decided to pass on touching those kids...
The pull down is called "gravity".
Gravity isnt pulling down
piotr monn yeah. It's the static from the lights and the foam. Even though static is made from rubbing stuff together
WITCH!!!
RIP great Randi. I knew you late but you have changed my perspective alot.
Oh come on, you can tell trailer park Bruce Lee is the real deal just looking at him. No tests needed. I believe in you trailer park Bruce Lee
Well now that you called him that I like him too.
Could've just asked him to turn a page towards himself instead of away from him
Randi actually is psychic. He just slowplays.
I was also thinking Randi could ask him to wear a mask or a scarf that covers his mouth.
@Vino How? He wouldn't be able to blow air underneath the page that way. And if he did somehow manage to do it then he could bring out the good ol styrofoam.
Whenever I’m having a bad day, I just watch this
😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
Whenever i'm having a BAD HAIR DAY i watch this
LOL
Reminds me that things are not so bad
If the polystyrene chips were causing static interference they should have swept them aside and asked him to wear a surgical mask instead.
We've all asked for psychic powers as a little kid, this guy just never stopped 😂
Which one? The fraud? He later want to prison for child abuse. How's that for the wondrous mind of a little child.